{"id":186890,"date":"2021-03-02T13:45:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186890"},"modified":"2021-03-02T13:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T18:45:40","slug":"biden-admin-will-not-allow-reporters-to-tour-child-migrant-detention-facilities-cite-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-will-not-allow-reporters-to-tour-child-migrant-detention-facilities-cite-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Will Not Allow Reporters To Tour Child Migrant Detention Facilities, Cite COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-will-not-allow-reporters-to-tour-child-migrant-detention-facilities-cite-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186890&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229769017-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration will not allow reporters to tour juvenile detention facilities now housing unaccompanied minors who came across the United States-Mexico border seeking asylum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReporters will not be allowed inside the Carrizo Springs facility for unaccompanied minors that was recently opened under the Biden administration in Texas, a Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (ACF) spokesperson\u201d said in response to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request to tour the facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is not hosting media tours of unaccompanied children (UC) facilities currently due to the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d the spokesperson told the media outlet, echoing an answer reportedly given to ABC News when they also requested a tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf media tours resume, we will send a media advisory,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>During a press briefing Monday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said he would \u201clook into\u201d the ABC News reporter\u2019s claims, telling the media that the Biden administration was \u201copen\u201d to media scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy to take a look at that, I owe it to my people to understand the situation and the reasons why access was denied,\u201d Mayorkas said. \u201cLet me share with you what I communicate to the workforce and we\u2019ll leave it at that because it\u2019s in the service of openness and transparency.\u00a0Don\u2019t shrink from criticism, just work very hard not to deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration appears to be facing a child migrant crisis. President Joe Biden loosened restrictions on the southern border, and asylum seekers responded, flooding over the border in the hopes of taking advantage of the new administration\u2019s more lenient immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Biden administration has had to reopen juvenile migrant detention facilities \u2014 a move made in sharp contrast to Biden\u2019s rhetoric on the campaign trail, when he accused the Trump administration of keeping \u201ckids in cages,\u201d when it housed unaccompanied minors in the same or similar facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe emergency facility \u2014 a vestige of the Trump administration that was open for only a month in summer 2019 \u2014 is being reactivated to hold up to 700 children ages 13 to 17,\u201d The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/immigrant-children-camp-texas-biden\/2021\/02\/22\/05dfd58c-7533-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html\">reported last week<\/a>. \u201cGovernment officials say the camp is needed because facilities for migrant children have had to cut capacity by nearly half because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border has been inching up, with January reporting the highest total \u2014 more than 5,700 apprehensions \u2014 for that month in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That number is only expected to grow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/biden-immigration-child-migrant-border-aeaf0231-02d3-4c96-b139-68069c0c1189.html?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=editorial&#038;utm_content=politics-breaking\">according to Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said from the White House podium the current situation <a class=\"gtm-content-click\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/immigration-mayorkas-dhs-chlid-separation-1d363bd3-694d-4f12-8804-11b3724ba940.html\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"is not a crisis\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/immigration-mayorkas-dhs-chlid-separation-1d363bd3-694d-4f12-8804-11b3724ba940.html\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is not a crisis<\/a>. Today, the president will be told the number of migrant kids is on pace to exceed the all-time record by 45% \u2014 and the administration <a class=\"gtm-content-click\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/kids-border-patrol-custody-767cb87d-d757-4c11-842e-2a5dd9db9839.html\" target=\"_self\" data-vars-link-text=\"doesn't have enough beds\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/kids-border-patrol-custody-767cb87d-d757-4c11-842e-2a5dd9db9839.html\" data-vars-event-category=\"story\" data-vars-sub-category=\"story\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">doesn\u2019t have enough beds<\/a>,\u201d the outlet reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>So far, though, Mayorkas has said, the administration is not dubbing the situation a \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cWe are challenged at the border,\u201d Mayorkas said in the briefing Monday. \u201cIt is a stressful challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cThat is why, quite frankly, we are working as hard as we are, not only in addressing the urgency of the challenge, but also in building the capacity to manage it and to meet our humanitarian aspirations and execution of the president\u2019s vision,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration will not allow reporters to tour juvenile detention facilities now housing unaccompanied minors who came across the United States-Mexico border seeking asylum. \u201cReporters will not be allowed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274574,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229769017-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin Will Not Allow Reporters To Tour Child Migrant Detention Facilities, Cite COVID-19","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1229769017-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Admin Will Not Allow Reporters To Tour Child Migrant Detention Facilities, Cite COVID-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}