Should Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas resign over 'whipping scandal'?

Video footage and photos of an incident made it appear that US agents were whipping migrants, leading to a furore among advocacy groups and civil rights leaders. US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas knew that the claims about US Borde...

By ET Spotlight Special | Oct 13, 2022, 10.32 PM IST

United States Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has triggered backlash for failing to protect the U.S. Border Patrol agents, who were wrongly accused of whipping the Haitian migrants along the Texas-Mexico border. Even after US president, Joe Biden promised to punish those border patrol agents before any investigation, Mayorkas failed to act.

According to a recent report, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas was aware the popular narrative that US border patrol agents 'whipping' Haitian migrants was incorrect. But, to support the US media’s narrative and President Joe Biden, he continued to criticise the agents for maintaining "systemic racism" in the government. Even the photographer who took the pictures denied the occurrence of whipping.

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Why Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas should resign?

It is suggested that Alejandro Mayorkas must resign not because the number of people crossing the border and entering the US levelled to millions, neither because of Mayorkas not having confidence in the rank and file officers or for old controversies like Orwellian "Disinformation Governance Board." He must resign because he deceived the agents and his commitment to "well and faithfully discharge" his duties in handling the "whipping scandal."

FAQs

Who is Alejandro Mayorkas?
Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas is a Cuban-American government official and attorney who has been serving as the seventh United States Secretary of Homeland Security since February 2, 2021

Was whipping controversy concerning U.S. Border Patrol agents bogus?
As per reports, Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was aware the popular narrative that Border Patrol agents whipped a group of Haitian migrants was false hours before he declared the incident “horrific” during a White House press conference.

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