U.S. Customs and Border Protection

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PAUL RATJE / Getty Evoking a scene that could rightfully be compared to the horrors inflicted on enslaved Black people in the United States, a photograph of a Border Patrol agent using a whip to chase down a Haitian migrant published on Monday (September 20) has caused significant outrage across the nation. The startling picture, one of many taken by Agence France-Presse photographer Paul Ratje along with video footage shows agents with the Border Patrol using cords of rope as whips to stop hundreds of Haitian migrants from crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas near the town of Del Rio. According to local reporting, Border Patrol agents were heard yelling “Get out now! Back to Mexico!” at the migrants, forcing them back through the water. T...