Black Caucus meets with White House over treatment of Haitian migrants
By Marty Johnson - 09/22/21 02:15 PM EDT
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) met with senior White House officials on Wednesday and called for the suspension of border patrol agents photographed on horseback rounding up Haitian migrants near the southern border town of Del Rio, Texas.
CBC chair Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) told reporters after the meeting at the White House with White House senior advisor and former CBC member Cedric Richmond and domestic policy advisor and former ambassador Susan Rice that the group immediately highlighted the now-viral pictures that to many observers looked like they were from another era.
“We were very concerned, as we looked at the process, we want those [agents] that were identified suspended; we want to halt that process,” Beatty said.
“The nation saw that,” Beatty added, “there is no one who has contacted me that did not feel that this was not horrific. It’s deplorable, it's insulting, it makes me too emotional to even talk about that you would treat people like that.”
Beatty was joined at the White House by Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Troy Carter (D-La.), Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Yvette Clark (D-N.Y.), Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Steven Horsford (D-Nev.).
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