7:09Images of U.S. Border Patrol agents confronting Haitian migrants in Texas are ‘heinous,’ says congresswoman

Newly published images of U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback grabbing asylum seekers near the U.S.-Mexico border are “heinous,” said U.S. Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman. 

Approximately 15,000 migrants, many of them Haitian, have crossed the border and gathered at a camp near a freeway bridge in Del Rio, Texas in recent days. 

The images of the interactions between the agents and the migrants have shocked many across the U.S. 

“We just cannot abide by that kind of abuse of power,” Watson Coleman told As It Happens host Carol Off. Watson Coleman is one of