Border patrol agents on horseback who corralled Haitian migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas, in September, “acted inappropriately during the incident” and endangered migrants with unsafe maneuvers, according to an internal review published Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Four agents could be disciplined over their roles in the event, according to the department, but it said in a statement that the disciplinary process is underway and that proposed disciplinary actions are “pre-decisional.”
The incident led to a national outcry as images emerged from Del Rio of white Border Patrol agents, mounted on horses, appearing to use their reins to control the movement of Black migrants. While the report found that “there were failures at multiple levels of the agency” during the episode, “the investigation found no evidence that agents struck any person with horse reins.”
