Images surfaced of Border Patrol agents on horseback whipping at Haitian migrants in Del Rio. The White House called it “horrific.” That’s generous. It was America, unclothed: a nation that romanticizes the frontier while criminalizing Black and brown bodies at the border. The whips weren’t the past resurfacing. They were the present, as raw as ever.
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