president kamala harris statements comparing what happened here in del rio to slavery. i m here at the international bridge. this international bridge border area is right here with mexico, it s been shut down for more than a week. the community has been feeling it. they have not only been feeling it economically, but right the community is apopl everybodying ctic, as you said, about how the agents have been treated. we watched as community folks came over to the bridge to bring water to the agents, to talk to the law enforcement officials and we re bringing food to them. i want you to hear from a former he s just recently retired, mounted police border patrol trainer what he had to say. his name is rowdy ballard and he had a lot to say to president biden. biden has said these border patrol agents will pay the price. how do you feel about that when you think about what they re saying. this is a president. heart breaking to know that,
selling goods. the other update we want to give you deals with those viral images involving border patrol on horse back. we re told the department of homeland security says they ll be temporarily suspending the horse patrols in the del rio sector after there was a bipartisan outrage about the treatment of those haitian migrants, dana. dana: thank you so much. meantime as jeff paul reported the biden administration home la nld security and white house the horses won t be used to push back migrants trying to come illegally across the border coming after false allegations the agents were using whips and that sparked outrage from progressives. rowdy ballard is a horse coordinator for the del rio sector. i know a lot about horses and you do, too. what is lost by not having these men and women be able to do their jobs on horse back? well, the ability to patrol
asking and it s a twirling the reins was just another tool they use to get the horses to do what they ask them. trace: rowdy, you talk about frustrating. 35 years ago my first job was in yuma, arizona and we rode with these guys. they re the best at doing this job. better than anybody. frustrating when the homeland security secretary is on monday i want to play this back and forth between the border patrol chief and homeland security secretary talking about monday what they thought about the video. watch. patrol units down here are going to play an integral part in the security response, operating in the river environment on horse back is a difficult situation and trying to make control those horses so we don t get in a position where we injure a migrant. we ll investigate the facts to insure that the situation is as we understand it to be.
talk which was a good way to do it. thank you so much for being here today. we ll keep an eye on it. administration says they will do an investigation and to see what will happen to these border patrol agents falsely accused of whipping migrants at the border. rowdy, thank you so much. thank you. trace: you know, the idea, dana, is that the border crisis has been a problem for the biden administration since he took office, right? that s a problem for this and only getting worse. fox news has been live on the ground across the southern border wafrpg it all. take a look at this. this is one of the busiest sectors for u.s. border patrol. in tee juan yeah you see the migrant tent camp living in difficult conditions. we have no idea if they have covid. they aren t being tested. the troopers are eyes in the skies when they saw migrants. the largest group we ve seen