Biden Staffer Blocks Ted Cruz From Taking Video at Border Facility

[IceWizard]

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine)
are seen at an unspecified location near the Rio Grande River in Texas,
on March 26, 2021. (Courtesy of Sen. Ted Cruz)






Biden Staffer Blocks Ted Cruz From Taking
Video at Border Facility


BY JACK PHILLIPS
March 28, 2021
Updated: March 28, 2021



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he was told by a Biden administration staffer that he
could not record a video at a Border Patrol facility along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Please give dignity to the people. Please give dignity to the people. … Please respect
the people, the rules,” the so-called staffer told Cruz while blocking the camera with her
face, according to a video he showed Fox News.

“So you work for the commissioner, you’re a senior adviser, you were hired two weeks
ago and you’re instructed to ask us to not have any pictures taken here because the
political leadership at DHS does not want the American people to know it,” Cruz said in
response to the official. She did not disclose her identity, and The Epoch Times has
contacted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for comment.

The staffer then told him: “Please don’t treat the people as such,” to which Cruz responded
that “your policies are unfortunately trying to hide them.”

“I understand that you were instructed,” Cruz said. “I respect them, and I want to fix this
situation, and the administration that you work for is responsible for these conditions.”

Cruz and more than a dozen Republican senators went to the border last week, with many
describing overcrowded and severe conditions in facilities used to hold unaccompanied
minors—children who unlawfully enter the country without an adult.







In recent weeks, Republicans have blamed President Joe Biden’s administration for the
surge in illegal immigration, although Biden in a press conference said such surges are
routine and blamed the previous administration for the humanitarian conditions on the border.

The senator also posted photos that the “Biden administration doesn’t want the American
people to see,” according to a tweet that included images of a crowded illegal immigrant
facility in Donna, Texas—near the border.

“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,” Cruz tweeted.

Journalists will be eventually allowed to go to the border to film Border Patrol facilities
after they have been largely denied access, according to White House press secretary
Jen Psaki in a Sunday interview.

Some Democrats whose districts lie on the border have said Biden needs to take action
immediately to deal with the situation.

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told CBS News on Sunday that numerous family units who
crossed the border illegally have been released into the United States without a notice
to appear in court.

“They’re supposed to appear, show up, maybe in 60 days, report to an ICE office,” he said.
“This is unprecedented.”

[Lechter]

Surprising that there is no outrage from Hollywood or others who lean left on the issues of neglected children and border security.

[IceWizard]

The video is here:::

‘This is not a zoo’:
Biden administration blocks
Ted Cruz from filming migrant facility

[Lechter]

Isn't that the kind of thing they do in the People's Republic of China?