Investigators found “no evidence” that Border Patrol agents on horseback used their reins to strike or whip Haitian migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas last September, according to an internal review at U.S. Customs and Border Protection published Friday.
The final report scrutinized the behavior of Border Patrol horse units last year at the Texan town of Del Rio, where they were deployed as thousands of migrants, mostly Haitian, tried to cross the border through the Rio Grande.
The review did find that several agents acted “inappropriately” during the high-profile incident. Four agents could be disciplined over their roles in the event, although the department said in a statement that the disciplinary process is still underway and that proposed actions are “pre-decisional.”
