>Ratje told PolitiFact that his photographs didn’t show signs of agents whipping any migrants or using anything as a whip to strike them.

>"Nobody saw a Border Patrol agent whipping," he said. "What we did see was a Border Patrol agent swinging the rein in like a circle. It looked pretty threatening. Nobody saw him strike the migrant with that thing, the reins.

>"I asked other colleagues, ‘Did you see him whipping?’ No," he added. "That stuff got misconstrued.

Truth is there was no whipping of immigrants. That part was completely misinformation.