Images that look to amusement U.S. Border Patrol agents connected horseback confronting migrants on the Rio Grande person a national authoritative speaking out.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said helium was horrified by what helium saw.

“I’m going to fto the probe tally its course, but the pictures that I observed troubled maine profoundly,” Mayorkas told News4Jax.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection mounted officers effort to incorporate migrants arsenic they transverse the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acua, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. Thousands of Haitian migrants person been arriving to Del Rio, Texas, arsenic authorities effort to adjacent the borderline to halt the travel of migrants. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

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There are thousands of migrants huddled nether the Del Rio International Bridge successful Texas. Many of them are Haitian.

“We are moving much migrants precise rapidly to different processing centers truthful we tin guarantee their information and information and the information and information of the community,” Mayorkas said.

There is partisan disapproval of what’s happening astatine the border.

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Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, said determination needs to beryllium amended enforcement of existent laws.

“It besides needs to hap astatine a overmuch quicker rate,” Gonzales said. “At this point, we shouldn’t beryllium Republicans oregon Democrats. We request to travel unneurotic and request to get done this situation together.

Both of Florida’s U.S. senators -- Sen. Rick Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio -- are Republicans.

Scott said successful a caller quality release:

“For months, I person been calling for this medication to get the borderline nether power and support American families and our nationalist security. August’s apprehension numbers further corroborate our fears.”

Both senators besides knock Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been fixed the task of stabilizing the borderline situation. Rubio called retired Harris connected cablegram news.

“Where’s the vice president who is expected to beryllium successful complaint of the borderline response? I deliberation close present she seems to beryllium successful the witnesser extortion programme due to the fact that she’s obscurity to beryllium seen connected that,” Rubio said.

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The vice president responded.

“What I saw depicted astir those individuals connected horseback, treating quality beings the mode they were is horrible. And I afloat enactment what is happening close now, which is simply a thorough probe into precisely what is going connected there. Human beings should ne'er beryllium treated that mode and I’m profoundly troubled by it,” she said.

President Joe Biden’s property caput commented to reporters aboard Air Force One.

She said: “He was horrified. He believes this does not correspond who we are arsenic a state and does not correspond the positions of the Biden-Harris administration.”

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Kent Justice co-anchors News4Jax's 5 p.m., 10 and 11 p.m. newscasts weeknights and reports connected authorities and politics. He besides hosts "This Week successful Jacksonville," Channel 4's blistery topics and authorities nationalist affairs amusement each Sunday greeting astatine 9 a.m.