Giddyap!
Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem donned a cowboy hat and boots and mounted a trusty steed final weekend for her first tour of the southern border since her affirmation.
Noem joined Border Patrol brokers in Del Rio, Texas, Sunday morning, the identical space made notorious a number of years again when now-unemployed ex-VP Kamala Harris falsely accused brokers of whipping Haitian migrants as a crowd of almost 14,000 crossed into the US illegally.
“The men and women of Border Patrol are ENERGIZED and HAPPY again because they get to do their job. They are able to fulfill their mission to keep America safe,” Noem wrote in an X publish Monday.
She additionally lambasted her predecessor Alejandro Mayorkas, whom she stated “rode over the Border Patrol and didn’t let them do their jobs” in an earlier publish sharing video of her main a gaggle of round a dozen border brokers on horseback alongside the dusty route.
Del Rio had been a hotbed of unlawful crossing exercise underneath the Biden administration, usually seeing 4,000 crossings or extra per day in December 2023, when the disaster peaked.
However that quantity began falling nearly instantly upon President Trump taking workplace Jan. 20, with simply 60 crossings recorded on a Sunday a number of weeks in the past.
Harris embarrassed herself and made nationwide headlines in 2021 after she reacted to a handful of pictures of brokers on horseback in Del Rio and falsely accused the brokers of being racist.
“Human beings should not be treated that way,” Harris instructed the mind belief on “The View” simply days after the controversy. “It also invoked images of some of the worst moments of our history, where that kind of behavior has been used against the indigenous people of our country, it has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.”
The claims that border brokers whipped the migrants, who’re black, have been later debunked by each the photographer who took the images and, later, an official Customs and Border Safety investigation.
Not solely have been her slanderous claims completely uncovered as bogus, however the agent within the {photograph} — whose title was withheld to guard his identification — later went on to win a Border Patrol Achievement award from the company.
Harris has by no means acknowledged or apologized for her statements.
