Reporters Question Jen Psaki About False Reports Of Border Patrol Using Whip On Haitian Refugees

White House press secretary Jen Psaki responded Monday to several questions about the allegedly brutal treatment of thousands of Haitian refugees who have <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/09/19/texas_sen_ted_cruz_films_10000_immigrants_at_the_border.html">congregated under a bridge over the Rio Grande in Texas</a> and about photos which seem to show a Border Patrol agent on horseback using a whip. Sample a feast of Monday afternoon whip discourse: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"We do not carry whips and the only thing I see in their hands is reins." - Border agent to me, about this tweet <a href="https://t.co/d2cZTNkIsA">https://t.co/d2cZTNkIsA</a></p>— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) <a href="https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/1440038990590005251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Why does the U.S. Border Patrol own even ONE (1) whip?</p>— Max Burns (@themaxburns) <a href="https://twitter.com/themaxburns/status/1440006325459722240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WH Press Secretary calls images of what looks like border patrol on horseback rounding up Haitian migrants with whips "horrific" & says this should never happen again. <br><br>She adds that she needs the "full context" but doesn't think anyone seeing this would see it as "acceptable." <a href="https://t.co/GtaJttBz78">https://t.co/GtaJttBz78</a></p>— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yamiche/status/1440011902504013824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Border Patrol agents on horseback cracking whips and charging into crowds of Haitian asylum seekers in Texas, shouting at them to go back to Mexico — strong reporting from <a href="https://twitter.com/psskow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@psskow</a> on the situation in Del Rio/Ciudad Acuña <a href="https://t.co/ZVeS6j3gnM">https://t.co/ZVeS6j3gnM</a></p>— Ryan Devereaux (@rdevro) <a href="https://twitter.com/rdevro/status/1439733206455050243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wanna know how much trouble we’re in as a nation?<br><br>Take a minute and browse the reaction to this photo of a country protecting its borders in the most benign way humanly possible.<br><br>Then you’ll know. <a href="https://t.co/NUAuuQQ5Rn">pic.twitter.com/NUAuuQQ5Rn</a></p>— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1440009768786092033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is inhumane. This is not America. Border patrol: your president is no longer Donald Trump. <a href="https://t.co/Vkqu5TKiFW">https://t.co/Vkqu5TKiFW</a></p>— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeteSouza/status/1440018089152815106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is beyond repulsive. Are these images from 2021 or 1851?? <a href="https://t.co/sZv1c0aRWG">https://t.co/sZv1c0aRWG</a></p>— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid