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'Horrific': Biden administration's handling of Haitian migrants at US border is shameful

Our view: Haitian migrants' only 'crime' was to hope that America would live up to its values and promises, that huddled masses could still find refuge here.

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Even President Joe Biden's press secretary admits that the images are "horrific."

The photographs, taken Sunday by Paul Ratje on the banks of the Rio Grande in Texas, show U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on horseback chasing down migrants from Haiti, a nation crippled by earthquakes, hurricanes, political violence and extreme poverty.

Desperate migrants – carrying food and water for their families and themselves – scrambled away from the agents' charging horses. 

At least one man, according to news reports, fell trying to avoid the long reins waved in the air by an agent on horseback.

Think about that: An agent, carrying with him the authority of the U.S. government, riding down a defenseless, frightened Black man.