'It's worse than slavery': Rep Maxine Waters attacks agents with whips

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Sanders said that Mayorkas will update the vice president once the Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility concludes its probe into the use of a lariat-like instrument on migrants.
53% : Data released by Border Patrol shows 28,000 Haitians have been arrested along the border this fiscal year, which began last October - dwarfing the 2020 number of 4,395 and 2,046 in 2019.
52% : They are then processed by the Border Patrol at those locations.
51% : They bought tickets for a bus ride to the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, planning to continue to Tapachula where they had already applied for asylum.
50% : The second official said the plan was to move to Tapachula all Haitians who already solicited asylum in Mexico.
48% : While it only applies to Haitians already residing in the US, critics argue many have traveled there believing they can seek asylum.
48% : The Haitian migrants who are already in Mexico's detention centers and have not requested asylum will be the first to be flown directly to Haiti once Mexico begins those flights, according to the official.
47% : 'We have ensured that individuals, during the pendency of the investigation, are not conducting law enforcement duties to interact with migrants.'
47% : Under Title 42, migrants can be repatriated to their home nations without the possibility of requesting asylum due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
47% : Last month alone, 6,768 Haitians were detained by Border Patrol, up from 5,000 in July.
46% : Thousands of Haitians have crossed the border into Texas in weeks and months to seek asylum in America.
44% : Fellow progressive Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts said, according to Fox News, that the treatment of migrants at the southern border is 'egregious and white supremacist behavior.'
42% : But since these nations have been ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, many Haitians have traveled up through South America and Mexico to seek asylum in the US.
38% : Neither congresswoman provided any proposed solutions to dealing with the crisis in migration at the southern border, and appeared to focus their ire at the agents on the frontlines rather than the president or vice president - who was named 'border czar' early on in the Biden administration.
38% : Republicans blame this pause on deportation flights for the surge in Haitians crossing into the US, arguing that this led Haitians to believe they would get asylum in America - when in fact it only applies to Haitians already residing in the US.
36% : Thousands of migrants pictured Wednesday taking shelter along the Del Rio International Bridge as they await to be processed by Border PatrolHAITIAN MIGRANT CRISIS IN NUMBERS:
11% : California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters said Wednesday that 'cowboy' Border Patrol agents on horse back using whips on mostly Haitian migrants is 'worse than slavery'Waters tweeted Tuesday accused the Biden administration of 'following Trump [immigration] policies'Fellow progressive Representative Ayanna Pressley said that the treatment of migrants at the southern border is 'egregious and white supremacist behavior.'
9% : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi condemned the 'inappropriate use of whips by Border Patrol officers' and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lambasted 'images of inhumane treatment of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol - including the use of whips.'

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