“Images of border guards on horseback chasing immigrants do not reflect the United States,” officials said.

The Minister of Internal Security of USA Alejandro Mallorca said today (22/9) that photographs showing members of the border police on horseback repelling migrants from Haiti, at the US-Mexico border, do not reflect US identity or the action of all this force.

In a photo taken by a photographer working with Agence France-Presse, a mounted border guard grabs a man by his T-shirt on the US bank of the Rio Grande River, a natural border between the two countries near Del Rio, Texas.

In another photo, a border guard keeps a group of people at a distance by pulling the reins of the horse, in a menacing position, to force them to change course and return to Mexico.

“These photos” do not reflect what we are as a country or what the police on the American border are like, “Mallorca said before the House Security Committee in the House of Representatives, as broadcast by APE-MPE.

He himself reminded that ordered an inquiry to be launched and promised results soon, “in a few days and not in weeks”.

The photos, which traveled around the world, provoked reactions in the United States, even from close allies of President Joe Biden.

“These photos make us nauseous,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Sumer.

US Vice President Kamala Harris called them “horrible”, estimating that “human beings should never behave in such a way”.

For some, the Immigrants were treated as herds of animals chasing them to be collected by cowboys. In others, these images brought back memories of the treatment of African Americans by equestrian police, prison officials, or even slave owners.

Thousands of migrants continue to cross the Rio Grande today in an effort to be granted asylum in the United States, where they are camping under a bridge in Del Rio.

“We have a plan to tackle” this migratory flow, Mallorca assured.

“We are implementing it, it takes time and we are starting to see results.”