‘Treated like animals’: Julián Castro condemns Biden over humanitarian crisis at US border

Democrat says denying rights of Haitian people to claim asylum contradicts Biden's promises to reverse Trump's cruelty'

Julian Castro, the former US presidential candidate, has become the latest prominent Democrat to attack Joe Biden for his handling of the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, lamenting his use of a contested Trump-era policy and warning that the president's baffling" approach could tear the Democratic coalition apart.

In an interview with the Guardian, Castro said he was disappointed that the US president had remained silent about images of border patrol agents on horseback corralling Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas.