MattB
2014-07-09 19:00:04 UTC
Border Patrol Official: DHS Ordered Illegal Immigrant Holding Facility
Cleared Out Before Congressional Visit
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/09/border-patrol-official-dhs-ordered-illegal-immigrant-holding-facility-cleared-out-before-congressional-visit/
Department of Homeland Security officials are stonewalling lawmakers
who try to make unannounced visits to immigrant detention facilities
throughout the country and are closing off public roads along the
U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to keep journalists from reporting on
the growing illegal immigration crisis, federal law enforcement
officials told The Blaze.
The officials said senior supervisors have made scheduling visits
ahead of time mandatory at detention facilities, turned back officials
from unannounced visits, and that Border Patrol agents have been
forced to clean up facilities and transfer illegal aliens from
unauthorized holding cells before they are inspected by lawmakers.
Reporters have also been stopped by DHS officials from traveling along
public access roads near the Rio Grande, where most of illegal
immigrant children and groups are crossing into the U.S.
The media crackdown along the Rio Grande happened shortly after
TheBlaze visited the region last month and traveled along some of the
more secluded roads along the rivers edge. TheBlaze witnessed dozens
of illegal immigrants turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents
after making the crossing into the United States and interviewed many
of them before they were taken away.
While in McAllen, Texas, TheBlaze made multiple requests to have
access to the facilities where illegals are being held. Border Patrol
spokesman Joe Gutierrez said all requests needed to be approved by
senior DHS officials in Washington, D.C., and all were denied. A tour
of a facility in Brownsville, Texas, was given to reporters who were
forbidden from speaking to agents or immigrants. TheBlaze chose not to
participate in the tour.
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Another Obama mess and cover up. Who will be to blame this time he
is running out of scapegoats.
Cleared Out Before Congressional Visit
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/09/border-patrol-official-dhs-ordered-illegal-immigrant-holding-facility-cleared-out-before-congressional-visit/
Department of Homeland Security officials are stonewalling lawmakers
who try to make unannounced visits to immigrant detention facilities
throughout the country and are closing off public roads along the
U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to keep journalists from reporting on
the growing illegal immigration crisis, federal law enforcement
officials told The Blaze.
The officials said senior supervisors have made scheduling visits
ahead of time mandatory at detention facilities, turned back officials
from unannounced visits, and that Border Patrol agents have been
forced to clean up facilities and transfer illegal aliens from
unauthorized holding cells before they are inspected by lawmakers.
Reporters have also been stopped by DHS officials from traveling along
public access roads near the Rio Grande, where most of illegal
immigrant children and groups are crossing into the U.S.
The media crackdown along the Rio Grande happened shortly after
TheBlaze visited the region last month and traveled along some of the
more secluded roads along the rivers edge. TheBlaze witnessed dozens
of illegal immigrants turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents
after making the crossing into the United States and interviewed many
of them before they were taken away.
While in McAllen, Texas, TheBlaze made multiple requests to have
access to the facilities where illegals are being held. Border Patrol
spokesman Joe Gutierrez said all requests needed to be approved by
senior DHS officials in Washington, D.C., and all were denied. A tour
of a facility in Brownsville, Texas, was given to reporters who were
forbidden from speaking to agents or immigrants. TheBlaze chose not to
participate in the tour.
*******
Another Obama mess and cover up. Who will be to blame this time he
is running out of scapegoats.