{"id":310181,"date":"2021-03-25T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=310181"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:45:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T18:45:31","slug":"flashback-kamala-stressed-importance-of-free-press-at-border-during-trump-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flashback-kamala-stressed-importance-of-free-press-at-border-during-trump-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"FLASHBACK: Kamala Stressed Importance of Free Press at Border During Trump Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fflashback-kamala-stressed-importance-of-free-press-at-border-during-trump-admin%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=310181&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-3482.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years before the Biden administration denied media access to overflowing migrant detention facilities, Vice President Kamala Harris stressed the need to counter the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;rhetoric&#8221; through on-the-ground border coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a 2018 interview outside of a border facility, Harris thanked the &#8220;free and independent press&#8221; for giving a &#8220;close-up look&#8221; at the Trump administration&#8217;s southern border policies, which she called &#8220;heartbreaking.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Biden Administration<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/flashback-kamala-stressed-importance-of-free-press-at-border-during-trump-admin\/\"><strong>FLASHBACK: Kamala Stressed Importance of Free Press at Border During Trump Admin<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/gov-ducey-calls-harris-worst-possible-choice-to-lead-on-border\/\"><strong>BEASTMODE: Gov. Ducey Calls Harris \u2018Worst Possible Choice&#8217; to Lead on Border<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/after-pledging-to-decriminalize-illegal-border-crossings-harris-will-lead-border-crisis-response\/\"><strong>After Pledging to Decriminalize Illegal Border Crossings, Harris Will Lead Border Crisis Response<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Thank God for a free and independent press, you know?&#8221; Harris said. &#8220;All these folks being down in Texas and here in California and at the border and giving the American public a close-up look at what&#8217;s really happening as opposed to the rhetoric coming out of this administration.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harris&#8217;s 2018 stance stands in sharp contrast to the Biden administration&#8217;s current actions at the border. For weeks, Harris and President Joe Biden refused to allow news media into migrant housing facilities along the border. The administration finally allowed a single camera into a Carrizo Springs, Texas, shelter on Wednesday. The facility, however, does not resemble the warehouse-like centers where thousands of unaccompanied minors are held in overcrowded &#8220;pods&#8221;\u2014it instead offers bunk beds and educational services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the restrictions, Biden committed to &#8220;transparency&#8221; at the border during a Thursday press conference but refused to disclose when reporters would be allowed at the overcrowded facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will commit when my plan, very shortly, is underway to let you have access to \u2026 other facilities as well,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I will commit to transparency, and as soon as I&#8217;m in a position to implement what we&#8217;re doing right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Democrats and Republicans have criticized the lack of media access, with Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) stressing the need to &#8220;make sure that the press has access to hold the administration accountable.&#8221; Despite the restrictions, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the Biden administration remains &#8220;committed to transparency.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/after-pledging-to-decriminalize-illegal-border-crossings-harris-will-lead-border-crisis-response\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tapped Harris<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to lead the White House&#8217;s response to the ongoing border crisis on Wednesday. U.S. Border Patrol agents are detaining an average of 600 unaccompanied migrant children per day, a more than 60 percent increase from the 370 average daily apprehensions during a previous migrant surge in 2019. The Trump administration allowed media to tour migrant detention centers at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harris, like Psaki, has thus far refused to refer to the border surge as a &#8220;crisis.&#8221; The vice president instead called the situation a &#8220;huge problem&#8221; that is &#8220;not going to be solved overnight&#8221; on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years before the Biden administration denied media access to overflowing migrant detention facilities, Vice President Kamala Harris stressed the need to counter the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;rhetoric&#8221; through on-the-ground border coverage. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311142,"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-3482.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FLASHBACK: Kamala Stressed Importance of Free Press at Border During Trump Admin","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310181","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-3482.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"FLASHBACK: Kamala Stressed Importance of Free Press at Border During Trump Admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310181","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=310181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}