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Restart the horseback Border Patrol and apologise to the agents

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 5, p. 139. Written by Ken Cuccinelli.

Restart the horseback Border Patrol and apologise to the agents

The document says “should”Who acts: Secretary of Homeland Security, CBPHow: internal managementp. 139 in the PDF
What the document says

“CBP should restart and expand use of the horseback-mounted Border Patrol.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 139

The chapter asks that the mounted Border Patrol be restarted and expanded, and that as part of the announcement the Secretary clear the records and personnel files of agents the chapter says were falsely accused by Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of whipping migrants, and issue a formal apology on behalf of the department and CBP.

What the document actually says

“CBP should restart and expand use of the horseback-mounted Border Patrol.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 139
That sentence, in plain words

Bring back the border agents who ride horses. Use more of them.

What this is about

Some border agents patrol on horseback. Their use was cut back after a dispute. The book says to bring them back. It also asks for an apology to those agents.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Proclamation 10946 marks the 101st anniversary of the Border Patrol and recounts the administration's border actions. It is commemorative: it does not restart or expand the mounted patrol, does not clear the records or personnel files of the agents the chapter names, and contains no apology from the department or from Customs and Border Protection. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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  1. The document itself

    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 139.
    https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf

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    “Restart the horseback Border Patrol and apologise to the agents,” Project 2025, chapter 5, p. 139. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch05-restart-horseback-border-patrol/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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