Washington, September 23, 2021 – Some policemen on horseback they had been filmed while they whipped Haitian migrants with the reins of their animals. Now the American Border Police, on the orders of Interior Minister Alejandro Mayorkas, has suspended temporarily service agents in the border area in Del Rio, Texas.
The humanitarian crisis on the border with Mexico, which mainly involves thousands of migrants from Haiti, the White House has been embarrassing the White House for days Biden’s popularity in free fall after the dramatic withdrawal from Afghanistan and due to a pandemic that is raising its head in the US. “Biden no more and no less like Trump” are now attacking critics, with the White House also targeted by accusations of racism, especially after the shocking images of officers on horseback whipping migrants.
Desperate families fleeing the rubble of the earthquake, misery and violence, and desperately trying to enter the United States by crossing the Rio Grande, massing under the long bridge that leads to Texas. Faced with an increasingly dramatic situation, Washington has adopted a hard line of rejections. But the American president must now deal with a sensational gesture: resignation dell’US special envoy to Haiti, Daniel Foote, who in a letter to the State Department denounces in no uncertain terms the “inhuman treatment” reserved for Haitian migrants and attacks the policy of forced repatriation defined as “wrong and counterproductive”. A policy, he writes, “to which I absolutely do not want to be associated”, made up of “interventions that have produced and are producing only catastrophic results”. “My recommendations have been ignored and put aside”, then attacks the long-time diplomat who Biden himself had appointed special envoy to Port-au-Prince last July, after the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moise. The State Department’s response was dry: “Instead of participating in finding solutions, the envoy to Haiti has chosen to resign and misrepresent the reasons for his resignation,” said spokesman Ned Price.
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