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"The agent — whose name has been withheld since the September 2021 incident to protect his identity — received a Border Patrol Achievement award from the agency Thursday morning, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source told The Post.
The agent was recognized for his intelligence work on human smuggling cases, they added.
A DHS source told The Post: “I find it hilarious and ridiculous that almost three years later, a Border Patrol agent who was accused of being racist and so vilified by this Biden administration now wins an achievement award for his efforts in preventing smuggling before he gets a public apology.”
"Days after the incident, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was forced to walk back a statement criticizing the actions of the agents on horseback.
“I made the statements without having seen the images,” he said from the White House press briefing room on Sept. 24, 2021.
“The horses have long reins, and the image in the photograph that we all saw, and that horrified the nation, raised serious questions about what … occurred and as I stated quite clearly, it conjured up images of what has occurred in the past,” Mayorkas added, referring to slavery in the US."