Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who is running in the primary for the state’s open Senate seat next year, called Border Patrol agents “white supremacists” and said the U.S. government was to blame for causing illegal immigration in a now-deleted social media post.
The Sept. 24, 2021, post on X, which was accessed by The Washington Free Beacon before El-Sayed deleted it, commented on a photo that he claimed showed a federal agent on horseback holding a whip while apprehending illegal aliens. The agent, who was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing, was reportedly holding the horse’s rein.
“Blaming horses for the dudes riding them to whip Haitian refugees is like blaming Haiti for the fact they’re coming,” El-Sayed wrote, according to a screenshot. “How about asking how our policies decimate Caribbean & Central American (and so many other) countries—and why we allow white supremacists to police our borders?”
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