Humanitarian and a public health crisis at US southern border: THANKS to BIDEN
`These are the pictures the Biden administration doesn’t want the American people to see. This is why they won’t allow the press.
This is the CBP facility in Donna, Texas.
This is a humanitarian and a public health crisis.`– TED CRUZ Texas Senator
Biden official asked GOP senators visiting border to delete photos from facilities
Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., told Fox News that a Biden official asked Republican senators to delete photos they took at a border facility they were touring on Friday.
Braun originally made the remarks to the Washington Examiner.
“There was one of Biden’s representatives. I felt sorry for the lady because she actually talked to me about deleting a picture, but by the time she got to me, all those other pictures were taken, and that shows you the hypocrisy,” Braun told the Examiner of a migrant processing and holding center in Donna, Texas.
Braun told the Examiner as the group stopped with border agents at the e
dge of the Rio Grande, where migrants often try to illegally cross. There he said a group of “coyotes,” who guide migrants across the border for money, jeered at the group in Spanish.
“All of a sudden to hear from the other side of the river taunting from the smugglers and coyotes, most of it in Spanish, telling the border guards that whatever you do, we’re coming,” said Braun. “That kind of hit home in such an anecdotal way because it is one story that kind of is a metaphor for what’s happening all up and down the border.”
The images show migrants jammed into pods at the processing facility and children sleeping on mats on the floor.
“The crisis surrounding this surge makes it a moral imperative for you to see firsthand what is happening—and not the sanitized version of the border tour taken by some of my congressional colleagues,” Braun wrote. “Having personally gone this week, I can testify to this being an inhumane, unsustainable and dangerous situation.
There were more than 18,000 unaccompanied minors in either Border Protection or Health and Human Services custody as of Thursday, according to homeland security records.
By law, children are not supposed to stay in the processing facilities for more than 72 hours before being transferred to HHS shelters specifically designed to care for children. But the surge of migrants at the border has overwhelmed the processing centers and caused delays.
“I know why President Biden doesn’t want the media to be here – because we do have an open border,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma said Friday after visiting the facility.
by FOXNEWS.com
