{"id":280304,"date":"2021-03-22T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=280304"},"modified":"2021-03-22T07:45:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:45:52","slug":"watch-mainstream-media-repeatedly-slams-biden-admin-for-secrecy-on-border-amid-5-alarm-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-mainstream-media-repeatedly-slams-biden-admin-for-secrecy-on-border-amid-5-alarm-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Mainstream Media Repeatedly Slams Biden Admin For Secrecy On Border Amid \u20185-Alarm Emergency\u2019"},"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%2Fwatch-mainstream-media-repeatedly-slams-biden-admin-for-secrecy-on-border-amid-5-alarm-emergency%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=280304&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-2609.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Mainstream news networks, including left-leaning ABC News and CNN, repeatedly slammed the Biden administration during the Sunday morning news shows over the massive crisis that has unfolded on the southern border under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key members of the Biden administration who appeared on the Sunday news shows was DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Former President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-unloads-on-biden-pathetic-dhs-head-over-their-border-crisis-our-country-is-being-destroyed\">blasted<\/a> Mayorkas\u2019s \u201cclueless performance,\u201d saying that he was arrogant and a \u201cnational disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABC News host Martha Raddatz said at the start of \u201cThis Week\u201d that despite the crisis-level numbers that the Biden administration is seeing that the media has not been allowed inside because the Biden administration has been restricting their access \u201cdespite promising transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raddatz pressed Mayorkas during the interview, asking why he will not allow the media inside the detention facilities where thousands of children are being kept and asking if the media would be allowed in this week. Mayorkas did not answer when he would allow the media to see what was happening inside the facilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.3305084745763\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ABC\u2019s Martha Raddatz confronts DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: \u201cif you\u2019ve got this great plan, why will you not let the media in?\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lw36M3X9JX\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lw36M3X9JX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dbhmJayHSF\">pic.twitter.com\/dbhmJayHSF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373653882438610948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>ABC News reporter Terry Moran said that the Biden administration\u2019s decision to reverse many of former President Donald Trump\u2019s policies \u201cwithout any preparation\u201d means that Biden \u201cowns\u201d this crisis now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really does,\u201d Raddatz agreed before calling Biden\u2019s decision making \u201ctone-deaf to the politics of this as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8888888888889\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ABC on Biden\u2019s border crisis: &#8220;to do that 180 without really any preparation,\u201d \u201che owns this,\u201d \u201ctone deaf,\u201d \u201cdoesn\u2019t have a plan\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rLpUUDM80S\">https:\/\/t.co\/rLpUUDM80S<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0RqtM8AAom\">pic.twitter.com\/0RqtM8AAom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373646359455272961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During another portion of the interview, Raddatz highlighted how migrants who were waiting to cross the border were saying, \u201cBiden promised that we can cross with minors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe heard the sheriff say it, the governor say it, and the migrants I spoke to say it,\u201d Raddatz said to Mayorkas. \u201cThey are coming across because they believe they will be welcomed under the Biden administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know you\u2019re trying to get that message out now, but your team was also briefed by career professionals at DHS during the transition about the possibility of this crisis. You yourself say we are on pace to have one of the largest migrant surges in 20 years,\u201d Raddatz pressed. \u201cWhy were you not prepared for this?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.3640167364017\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ABC Raddatz fact checks DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: the Biden administration was warned of crisis, migrants cite Biden\u2019s policy changes<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOYiOJskjz\">https:\/\/t.co\/BOYiOJskjz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jR4IiI4JTS\">pic.twitter.com\/jR4IiI4JTS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373645987890221061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During an interview on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d with host Chris Wallace, Mayorkas was again repeatedly slammed over the Biden administration\u2019s secrecy in not allowing reporters in to see the Border Patrol facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace played a clip of Biden speaking the day after he was inaugurated in which Biden said, \u201cWe\u2019ll always be honest and transparent with you about both the good news and the bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo why has the Biden administration refused to allow reporters to see for themselves and to record what the conditions are under which these minors are being housed?\u201d Wallace continued. \u201cWhy, in fact, did you \u2014 when you went to the border on Friday and led a congressional delegation, why did you refuse to allow reporters to see the conditions under which these minors are being held?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas again claimed that the ban on reporters was intended to protect \u201chundreds of vulnerable migrant children,\u201d to which Wallace responded that it sounded like Mayorkas was making \u201can excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that there is a safe condition under which a pool reporter and a pool camera crew could go into some of these facilities \u2014 this has been going on for two months now \u2014 and record the conditions under which these minors are being held,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cIt seems to me to say it\u2019s impossible to do because of COVID sounds like an excuse\u201d and \u201cnot a legitimate reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.3504672897196\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fox News\u2019 Chris Wallace calls out DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for Biden\u2019s media blackout on the border crisis<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ddP6LzmV8l\">https:\/\/t.co\/ddP6LzmV8l<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QgGYlzYCJt\">pic.twitter.com\/QgGYlzYCJt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373640792435228675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMr. Secretary, why not let reporters go to see what the conditions are at the camp in Midland?\u201d Wallace pressed. \u201cAnd is it true that more than 10 percent of the minors in Midland have tested positive and, in fact, that more than 200 migrants in Brownsville tested positive for COVID and then were released?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas did not answer Wallace\u2019s question about reports that 10 percent of the minors in Midland tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 200 migrants in Brownsville tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.1363636363636\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refuses to answer how many migrants are testing positive for COVID-19<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P2qANmJgBx\">https:\/\/t.co\/P2qANmJgBx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eb6viLSMWP\">pic.twitter.com\/Eb6viLSMWP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373640431829987329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wallace then pressed Mayorkas about the Biden administration\u2019s policies on the southern border, showing how the border crisis unfolded as Biden undid Trump\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Secretary, do you not see a connection between the surge at the border and the policy changes that Joe Biden has made in his first two months?\u201d Wallace asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris, I do not,\u201d Mayorkas claimed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.375\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When confronted on Biden\u2019s border rollbacks, DHS Secretary Mayorkas insists that the rollbacks have no connection to the present border crisis<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wCDP1sVgnv\">https:\/\/t.co\/wCDP1sVgnv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I8j7Bgrcc7\">pic.twitter.com\/I8j7Bgrcc7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373641270715908103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN host Dana Bash slammed the Biden administration for refusing to call the border crisis a \u201ccrisis,\u201d saying that he has heard from a former senior government official \u2014 who has worked for Republican and Democratic administrations \u2014 that what is unfolding on Biden\u2019s watch is a \u201cfive-alarm emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash then pressed Mayorkas on whether it was \u201cacceptable\u201d to him that children in Biden\u2019s detention facilities are reportedly \u201ctaking turns sleeping on mats on the floor\u201d while \u201csome haven\u2019t showered or seen the sun in days.\u201d Mayorkas did not answer the question.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8324022346369\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN\u2019s Dana Bash reports: official says border crisis is a \u201c5-alarm emergency\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1Sk3RQIRLi\">https:\/\/t.co\/1Sk3RQIRLi<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3gEbs0ZvcM\">pic.twitter.com\/3gEbs0ZvcM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373630314862493703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI want to get to the cause of this surge at the border,\u201d Bash continued. \u201cAnd by doing that, I want to talk about what Congressmen Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, who are both fellow Democrats and represent areas near the Southern border in Texas, have said. They have been pretty critical about the policy that the Biden administration changed. And they have also been critical about your recent comments telling migrants not to come now, but to come later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Democrats saying that Biden is fueling the crisis, Mayorkas said, \u201cI respectfully disagree with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.3254716981132\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN\u2019s Bash confronts DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on border-state Democrats saying Biden has fueled the crisis<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rzbmp9mtnz\">https:\/\/t.co\/Rzbmp9mtnz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EqXCaNlXdt\">pic.twitter.com\/EqXCaNlXdt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373635489740230658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During a separate CNN program, CNN host Pamela Brown repeatedly slammed the Biden administration for not allowing the media to view the crisis that is unfolding as migrant children are being exposed to \u201cjail like conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5843373493976\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN&#8217;s Pamela Brown slams Biden&#8217;s &#8220;media blackout&#8221; on the border crisis<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zpj40adfWm\">https:\/\/t.co\/Zpj40adfWm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IQXbhMvRqA\">pic.twitter.com\/IQXbhMvRqA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373620226798055424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0697674418605\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN\u2019s Pamela Brown reports \u201cas the situation at the US-Mexico border gets worse, the media is being kept from it\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aQNE02RH7X\">https:\/\/t.co\/aQNE02RH7X<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FVUm2IfyE2\">pic.twitter.com\/FVUm2IfyE2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1373620148385558529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstream news networks, including left-leaning ABC News and CNN, repeatedly slammed the Biden administration during the Sunday morning news shows over the massive crisis that has unfolded on the southern &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310903,"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-2609.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Mainstream Media Repeatedly Slams Biden Admin For Secrecy On Border Amid \u20185-Alarm Emergency\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280304","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-2609.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Mainstream Media Repeatedly Slams Biden Admin For Secrecy On Border Amid \u20185-Alarm Emergency\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280304","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=280304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}