US Border Patrol stops using Texas cavalry after the global uproar

The U.S. Border Patrol will stop using its cavalry around the small town of Rio Grande, Texas, authorities said yesterday. following the publication of photos, which record, as reported, the humiliating treatment of Haitian immigrants trying to enter the United States.

Interior Minister Alejandro Mallorca “informed the leaders of civil rights organizations that we will no longer use horses in Rio Grande,” said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Security clarified that this measure is being taken “temporarily”.

«We will use other methods to identify individuals who could be at medical risk“, Is indicated in a press release.

In one photo taken by an AFP photographer on Sunday, an equestrian border guard is seen grabbing a man by the T-shirt on the US side of the Rio Grande, a natural border between the two countries near Del Rio.

These photos, which made the rounds of the world, provoked reactions in the USA. Mallorca assured yesterday that these photographic snapshots do not reflect the identity of the United States, nor the action of the entire border guard.

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