Congresswoman Maxine Waters said the images and videos of Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian refugees at the border is “worse than what we witnessed in slavery.”
“What we witnessed takes us back hundreds of years. What we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery,” Waters said at a Wednesday press conference. “Cowboys with their reins, again, whipping Black people, Haitians, into the water where they’re scrambling and falling down when all they’re trying to do is escape from violence in their country.”
“I’m pissed. I’m unhappy and I’m not just unhappy with the cowboys, who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them,” Waters added. “I’m unhappy with the administration.”
This week, videos have emerged showing law enforcement officers using aggressive tactics, including swinging long reins at Haitian migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near Del Rio, Texas.Newsweek Newsletter sign-up >
Asked about the footage, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday that it was “horrible to watch,” but that she did not have the full context or additional details, adding, “I can’t imagine what context would make that appropriate.”
On Wednesday, Waters criticized the Biden administration, suggesting that it was taking an approach to immigration similar to the Trump administration.
“We are following the Trump policy. He is the one that does not follow the Constitution and would not allow those seeking refuge to be able to petition to get into the country,” the California congresswoman claimed. “What the hell are we doing here?”Newsweek subscription offers >
“I want to know, in the first place, who’s paying these cowboys to do this work?” Waters said. “They’ve got to be gotten rid of. They’ve got to be stopped. It cannot go on.”
“We are here and we are organized and we are saying to the president and everybody else, ‘You got to stop this madness,'” Waters said at Capitol Hill.
Waters was joined by other House Democrats from the Congressional Black Caucus, the Caribbean Caucus, the Haitian Caucus and the Hispanic Caucus in condemning Border Patrol’s treatment of Haitian migrants.
“As we speak out against the cruel, the inhumane and the flat-out racist treatment of our Haitian brothers and sisters at the southern border,” Representative Ayanna Pressley said, “We cannot and must not look away in this moment.”
“Haitian lives are Black lives and if we truly believe that Black lives matter, then we must reverse course. The Biden administration must immediately and indefinitely halt all deportations of Haitian migrants,” the Massachusetts congresswoman stated. “It must affirm and guarantee the right to due process for those seeking asylum and it must use every resource available to support those fleeing this humanitarian crisis on the island.”
In recent days, the Biden administration has swiftly begun deporting Haitians who have gathered in the tens of thousands at the southern border.
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said a total of 4,000 migrants have been either deported or moved to other processing centers along the border
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Original Article: Maxine Waters Calls Haiti Migrant Treatment ‘Worse Than What We Witnessed in Slavery’ (newsweek.com)
This is as bad as when the Jews in World War 11 were sent back to be murdered by the Hitler regime when trying to flee Germany.
Shows how much democrats know. What they describe aswhips are actually the reins they use to get the horse going in the direction they want the horse to go. Plus they use them to keep the horse moving. Leave it up to the democrats to spin fake news! Such a sad, sad day for democrats to stoop to such lows. I bet John F. Kennedy is continuously spinning over in his grave. Democrats! Give the most famous democrat some rest and stop spreading fake news. “Ask not what your(?) country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Does any of that sentence remind you of any quote John Kennedy gave in a speech? If not maybe if you had spent more time studying than America wouldn’t be so racially divided!!!
Your administration shouldn’t have let every illegal in this country then! If you were responsible adults this country wouldn’t be in the toilet less than a year!
Waters, get the h–l out of politics and take the rest of the corrupt administration with you! This country will not tolerate the morals, ideals, and respect this country was founded on. As taxpayers we are not supporting illegals while you give them everything and leave the citizens in this country in dispair. You people are grossly incompetant and unfit for your roles!
Horses have been used for a very long time for crowd control . There was no using whips it was split reins and as for them forcing them back into Mexico territory it was because they were trying to make a run to the U.S. side … STOP WITH YOUR FALSE NARRATIVE!!!
This whole administration needs to be tried and fired including you for stirring a hate pot with your lies and accusations. Time to retire you are NOT FOR THE PEOPLE
Well said.
George Soros wants open border and open society and he has many tentacles and long reach mostly to democrats for years. They spread illegals and unvetted Afghans all over our country, carried all kinds of diseases, covid, and measles. Then conveniently point fingers at Trump’s supporters, telling anyone who will believe him, responsible to spreading covid 19 because they are unvaccinated. NOT A SINLE PRESS CHALLENGE HIM AS TO WHY OR WHAT MAKES HIM THINK TRUMP’S SUPPORTERS ARE UNVACCINATED OR SPREAD THE COVID?
This man wants to be POTUS most of his political lives. Ran many times and failed each time. If wasn’t for the stolen, he would failed the 2020 as well.
For a man who can barely get out of bed or gather 20 people at his rallies, it must have been divine intervention for him to suddenly win by a landslide.
REALLY?
Considering the facts, it’s more than ironic that Biden stated he created a “voter fraud organization” out of his own mouth. The words do sure speak truth like an accidental confession.
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Sometimes Biden tells you the truth about what’s really going on. Ooops… I don’t need you to get me elected… http://youtu.be/v3mv6XOUBdM (http://youtu.be/v3mv6XOUBdM) Voter fraud.. http://twitter.com/i/status/1329751334921367556… (http://twitter.com/i/status/1329751334921367556…) President Harris…
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THAT’S WHY BIDEN’S HANDLERS DON’T WANT HIM TO TALK TOO LONG OR TOO MUCH.
Wate4s is an ignorant fool who should be picking cotton
Im sure that’s what you’d like to see all Africans doing when they’re not swinging from a silk cotton tree.
All you bleeding hearts take all these illegals home with you, keep them in Ca. it is a lost cause already. People are tired of nothing being done to stop all these law breakers, they are crooks, drug smugglers, disease carriers, ect. There is a right way to migrate here and this is sure not it. Congresswoman Waters is the one who thinks it’s OK to assault ones who do not agree with her. They are all as phony as a three dollar bill. They have all got to go.
the old marine
I thank that Maxine waters needs a mental adjustment. I think we should just send about 300 of these border jumpers to her gated million dollar home and let her feed and provide them with what they need. I think that if she had to pay for her ideals with her own money then she would have a different view of things. If she thinks that what is going on at the border is like the slave days in our very distance past cause by the Democrats then and now then she is either very very stupid or has a very limited education of what the civil war was all about.
Agree, totally. They people in our government think they are better than all the American People. They live lives of power and wealth and don’t give a crap about America or the American people. We need to clean up the entire tribe of people in the upper echlons of our government.
Maxine is a disgusting loud mouth! Talking about our border officers that are overworked with the mess this old pig helped create. This woman has never done anything good in her entire time in politics, she wouldn’t be able to hold a real job in the private sector, nothing but a loser.
You are totally correct. The whole bunch of then need to resign and live the rest of their lives on the millions they have. Many of those in our Government only pretend they care or seldom do anything good for America.
Who listens to this fossil spout her vile and ridiculous opinion? She is as crazy as they come and can’t think for herself!
Maxine Waters never witnessed any slavery. What is she talking about? She’s a legislator and a multi-millionaire.
Too bad this doesn’t have options for voting ups or down. There are a lot of UPs voting’s by seeing the responses here.
Can we have this witch committed? That’s the only place she belongs.
She is a disgusting old fool. And if she is so concerned. Send all the Mexicans you have spread all over America carrying covid back to Mexico an the help the Haitians come into the country the right way. But first get rid of the illegal Mexicans. Your choice. One of the other. I do feel bad for these poor people coming from a corrupt country that has been hit with earthquakes an no way of rebuilding. But. We have our own problems in this country we are trying to get under control. And no help from politicians. Their answer is Mask up. Get shots and shut down businesses. And spend trillions of money we don’t have for their foolishness.
Maxine serves a real purpose. Listen to what she has to say. Realize it’s a lie and believe just the opposite. She is a one person FAKE NEWS.
This democRAT Waters is complexed with Biden !!! Sorry but all I see is a diversion created by Biden !!! From one Major crisis Afghanistan to the Southern border !!! He can’t answer any hard questions because he doesn’t have any real excuse for what he has done in Afghanistan !!! One disastrous decision after another !!! Plan and simple he is a disaster for this country & the world !!! Has no idea what he is doing !!!
Well, by golly, that’s what a lot of us have been sayin’ all along, Maxine! Yankees spread around the bad stories ‘bout slavery! Now, here it is 2021 and finally, you admit that, even with free food and free medical care, the “under-the-bridge migrants” [read: illegals] are getting worse care than American slaves (white and black, since the 1600s)