Biden official attempts to censor Senators' photos, videos taken at Texas migrant facility
"None of us would have gone down there if we were going to be muzzled"
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) showed exclusive video of a woman he identified as a Biden administration staffer blocking him from recording at a migrant facility on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures" hosted by Maria Bartiromo.
Cruz and Sen. John Cornyn, both Texas Republicans, led a delegation of senators to Donna, Texas, where migrants have been packed into facilities designed for a much smaller number of people. The senators were touring a migrant holding facility near the city, essentially tents designed for 250 children but which is said to be housing over 4,000 as of Friday.
Sunday afternoon, ACV has learned, the Biden Cabal is trying to get the internet scrubbed of the photos the GOP senators posted online across social media.
"Please give dignity to the people. Please give dignity to the people … Please respect the people, the rules," the staffer told Cruz while blocking his camera with her face.
"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.
"Please don’t treat the people as such," the staffer responded.
"Your policies are unfortunately to hide them because what you’re doing to them would embarrass your bosses. I understand that you were instructed," Cruz said. "I respect [the people] and I want to fix this situation. The administration that you work for is responsible for these conditions."
Republican senators on Friday released shocking visuals of migrants and children packed into border facilities as they railed against what they called a border crisis of President Biden’s own creation. Cruz posted images of migrants crammed into pens, almost on top of one another. The tent city is built for 1,000 with CCP virus restrictions limiting occupancy to 250. At the time of tour, there were 16 times that many young adults and children housed there, according to Cruz.
Additionally, Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told The Washington Examiner that a Biden aide — perhaps the same one who confronted Cruz — asked that he delete the photos he took with his cell phone. Like others on the trip, he didn’t.
“There was one of Biden’s representatives,” he told the Examiner. “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 already posted, and that shows you the hypocrisy. None of us would have gone down there if we were going to be muzzled.”
Sen. Ted Cruz efforts to record video at a south Texas migrant facility were temporarily blocked by a Biden DHS official. (Video: Sen. Ted Cruz via Fox News)
All 18 members of the party that toured the facility released pictures they took. Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) and others posted photos of the overcrowded holding facility, where Lankford said that multiple “pods” designed to hold 80 children each were packed with more than 700 throughout the facility.
"The Donna facility where that video … was taken, the Donna facility is this giant tent city that they've built. It's massive. It is at a 1600% capacity and that meant you saw in these cages all those children, little boys and little girls, side by side, they're definitely not 6-feet apart," Cruz said on Sunday.
"In that facility, children are testing positive for COVID at roughly a 10% rate," he said.
It is obvious why Biden and his cabal in the White House does not want the media to to see the facilities the 18 Republican Senators toured Friday. Despite disclaimers to the contrary by various Biden mouthpieces, the Southern border is wide open.
Unaccompanied minors are, for the most part, sent to the Donna facility. It is literally wall to wall, according to several senators, in every one of several plexiglass cells that divide the facility, supposedly by gender but with younger children that does not seem to be the case, said Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO). Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) reported seeing young adults and children being given flat vinyl mats and being forced to sleep in the hallway.
It was just two years ago Democrats could not get pictures posted quickly enough of “kids in cages!” when Trump was in office, running to the media talking about a “humanitarian crisis” Trump used tent cities similar to the one’s the Biden Cabal has erected all along the Southern border, but never filled them beyond 80% of capacity.
The pictures that came out on Friday and Saturday are far worse. That much is obvious, and because they are far worse, Biden’s group of insurrectionists is now blocking the media from telling a far more inflammatory story than the one they begged the media to blow out of proportion two years ago.
Biden claims he’s going to be transparent. As Fox News’ Chris Wallace said to Biden’s surrogate liar Jen Psaki Sunday, they are being far less transparent than President Donald Trump’s administration.
Exactly what we’ve been saying all along.