H omland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, along with Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday, told the Biden administration about restricting media access to federal facilities where thousands of migrant children are being held after crossing the border.
Notting President Biden’s resolve to maintain a transparent White House “Fox News Sunday” The host asked why journalists did not have access to customs and border patrol housing facilities during the Mayurakas visit on the border on Friday.
The secretary began his reply by saying that “we are in the midst of APEM.” He said that no concrete steps have been taken by the government to prevent such incidents.
“We are focused on our actions, executing our actions, in a crowded patrol facility where hundreds of vulnerable migrant children are located,” Mayorkas said.
“We are working on providing footage so that the American public can see the border patrol stations,” he continued.
But Wallace said that “seems an excuse” and pointed out that “a safe situation” in which a pool reporter and camera crew can enter one of the facilities and record children, even coronoviruses Even in epidemics.
“We’re working on providing access,” Mayorkas replied.
“And certainly journalists can look at the Department of Health and Human Services in which children are sheltered longer,” he said.
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