Remembering the Border Patrol ‘Whip’ Smear, One Year Later

One year ago, as the number of migrants being encountered by and slipping past Border Patrol agents skyrocketed, the press and Biden administration turned their attention not toward the issue at hand, but instead toward the supposed cruelty of those bearing the brunt of it.

After a photographer snapped a few pictures interpreted by the press as proof that agents were whipping migrants coming across the Rio Grande, President Biden promised that the red-handed agents would “pay” for their actions. “People [are] being strapped,” asserted Biden, who called this imagined...