{"id":239742,"date":"2021-03-17T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=239742"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T20:30:35","slug":"border-officials-under-gag-order-barred-from-speaking-to-press-amid-immigration-crisis-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-officials-under-gag-order-barred-from-speaking-to-press-amid-immigration-crisis-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Officials Under \u2018Gag Order,\u2019 Barred From Speaking To Press Amid Immigration Crisis: Report"},"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%2Fborder-officials-under-gag-order-barred-from-speaking-to-press-amid-immigration-crisis-report%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=239742&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\/fb_image-1638.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Customs and Border Protection officials are reportedly under an unofficial \u201cgag order\u201d and barred from talking to the press amid a worsening situation at the border.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal immigrants continue to flood into the U.S., largely motivated by President Joe Biden\u2019s lax policies on border security and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-team-to-migrant-caravan-now-isnt-a-good-time-try-coming-later\">soft messaging<\/a> from his administration. As the crisis continues to worsen, the Biden administration has barred Border Patrol officials from speaking to the press or allowing journalists to tour border facilities, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/immigration\/biden-administration-limits-what-border-patrol-can-share-media-about-n1261133\">NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Such measures were never instituted to such an extent throughout the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>As NBC reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for \u201cride-alongs\u201d with agents along the southern land border; local press officers are instructed to send all information queries, even from local media, to the press office in Washington for approval; and those responsible for cultivating data about the number of migrants in custody have been reminded not to share the information with anyone to prevent leaks, the officials said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Multiple news organizations, including NBC News, have requested access to or photos from inside overcrowded border processing facilities holding unaccompanied migrant children; they have been denied. The DHS press office released one photo late Tuesday of a mother and child undergoing a health screening inside a border facility, but no wider shots to show conditions or sleeping arrangements.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new restrictions have not been detailed in an official memo, but passed down through the ranks verbally, according to NBC. News of the \u201cgag order\u201d follows a Tuesday report suggesting that the number of unaccompanied children at the border is three times higher than previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-bidens-border-crisis-explodes-number-of-unaccompanied-children-in-custody-300-higher-than-previously-known\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22.830383480826\">\n<p><em>CBS News host Norah O\u2019Donnell said Biden\u2019s border crisis was \u201cgrowing larger and more dire by the day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTonight, we have got the stunning new numbers,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said. \u201cSources tell CBS News more than 13,000 migrant children who entered the country without their parents are now in U.S. custody. The government says even more adults are being turned back every day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a tweet, O\u2019Donnell noted that the 13,000 unaccompanied minors, which is significantly higher than the roughly&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/03\/14\/politics\/unaccompanied-migrant-children-cbp\/index.html\">4,200<\/a>&nbsp;that were reported in U.S. custody at the start of the week, \u201care being held in U.S. custody for an average of 120 hours, far longer than the 72 hours allowed by law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Illegal immigrants flocking to the U.S. southern border have cited some of the rhetoric coming out of the Biden administration as their reason for making the trip. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-puts-his-foot-down-orders-waves-of-illegal-migrants-flocking-to-southern-border-dont-come\">Biden<\/a> pushed back on a Tuesday interview with ABC News host George Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea that Joe Biden said, \u2018Come\u2019 \u2013 because I heard the other day that they\u2019re coming because they know I\u2019m a nice guy,\u201d Biden said. \u201cHere\u2019s the deal, they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can say quite clearly: Don\u2019t come,\u201d Biden added later. \u201cDon\u2019t leave your town or city or community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/az-border-chief-says-illegal-immigration-on-track-to-top-past-three-years-combined-already-surpassed-2018\">AZ Border Chief Says Illegal Immigration On Track To Top Past Three Years Combined: \u2018Already Surpassed\u2019 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><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>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs and Border Protection officials are reportedly under an unofficial \u201cgag order\u201d and barred from talking to the press amid a worsening situation at the border.Illegal immigrants continue to flood &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310696,"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\/fb_image-1638.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Border Officials Under \u2018Gag Order,\u2019 Barred From Speaking To Press Amid Immigration Crisis: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239742","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\/fb_image-1638.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Border Officials Under \u2018Gag Order,\u2019 Barred From Speaking To Press Amid Immigration Crisis: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239742","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=239742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}