Border Patrol agents facing Democratic attacks shifted to desk duty amid investigation

The Border Patrol agents who blocked Haitian migrants from entering the U.S. via the border at Del Rio, Texas, and who are now at the center of a Democratic controversy over false claims about their use of "whips" while on horseback, have been shifted to desk duty pending an investigation. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who initially backed the agents before changing his stance amid outrage from the White House and left-wing Democrats, told a House Committee that the agents had been taken off the frontlines amid an investigation that he expected to take days, rather than weeks.-- More...