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Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday requested that Vice President Kamala
Harris and the Biden administration grant media access to U.S.
Customs and Border Protection facilities at the Texas border.
Harris was tapped by President Biden to lead efforts to resolve
the issue at the border. Cruz reminded his followers that Harris
said in a 2019 tweet that as president, she would release
children from cages and get rid of private detention centers.
"Kamala, tomorrow 17 senators are joining me at the TX border.
The Biden admin is refusing to allow press to see the CBP
facilities," Cruz wrote. "Since you’ve promised to 'release
children from cages,' surely your admin will allow media to film
the empty cages."
HUNDREDS OF COVID-POSITIVE MIGRANT CHILDREN IN ISOLATION AFTER
CROSSING US BORDER
"If not, what are you hiding?" he continued.
The Biden administration has come under scrutiny for the surge
of migrants arriving at the border. Capacity at temporary
holding facilities has become stretched after the administration
said it would no longer expel unaccompanied minor children last
month.
On Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released photos
of the temporary facilities in Texas that are being used to
process migrant children after the White House and CBP were
pressed over why the media had not been given access to those
facilities.
The photos showed crowded quarters, including children sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on mats on the floor with aluminum blankets
and on benches. Another photo shows dozens of children in a
transparent pen similar to a cage.
The Biden administration has cited coronavirus protocols as the
reason why the press was not allowed in.
"That's their stated justification. Never mind that they are
packing thousands upon thousands of illegal immigrants in packed
facilities. It is reporters and cameramen that pose the COVID
threat. And Harris, that's obviously absurd. I can tell you,
I've taken border trips," Cruz said during an appearance on "The
Faulkner Focus." "I've been to those facilities many times in
the Obama administration, in the Trump administration, and
they've always let media in. It is only the Biden administration
that is engaged in this blackout..."
"But the fact that every news station is not outraged -- if
Donald Trump had done this and said, ‘No reporters are allowed
on the border,’ the media would have rightly lost their minds.
And y’all would have been right to," he added.
On Wednesday, Biden insisted the surge in migrants at the
southern border began under the Trump administration.
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White House officials said the Biden administration is
"committed to transparency" and will continue to work with the
Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and
Human Services to create avenues for media access to the
facilities, as well as access for members of Congress.
Fox News' Tyler Olson and Brooke Singman contributed to this
report
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-calls-on-harris-to- allow-filming-of-cbp-facilities-at-texas-border
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