{"id":335213,"date":"2021-03-28T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T16:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=335213"},"modified":"2021-03-28T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T16:15:18","slug":"biden-official-urged-republican-senator-to-delete-photos-of-crowded-border-facility-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-official-urged-republican-senator-to-delete-photos-of-crowded-border-facility-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Official Urged Republican Senator To Delete Photos Of Crowded Border Facility: 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\">26<\/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-official-urged-republican-senator-to-delete-photos-of-crowded-border-facility-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=335213&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-4060.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Republican senator claims a Biden official \u201casked that he delete his photos\u201d he took as he toured an overcrowded facility at the U.S.-Mexico border last week, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/washington-secrets\/border-tour-senators-heckled-by-coyotes-biden-officials-tried-to-block-photos\">told<\/a> The Washington Examiner that a Biden aide involved in the tour \u201casked that he delete his photos. Like others on the trip, he didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was one of Biden\u2019s representatives,\u201d he told the Examiner. \u201cI 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 that shows you the hypocrisy. None of us would have gone down there if we were going to be muzzled,\u201d said Braun, who added that Border Patrol also asked that no photos be taken, but that \u201cthey were telling us that because they had to.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 in Donna, Texas, where Lankford said that \u201cpods\u201d designed to hold 80 children were packed with more than 700.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know why President Biden doesn\u2019t want the media to be here \u2013 because we do have an open border,\u201d Lankford said on Friday.&nbsp; \u201cIf you were an unaccompanied minor, you were sent over to the Donna facility, which we went over and visited. That facility is designed for 80 people in a pod, and they had 709 people\u2026 literally wall to wall in every one of the little plexiglass cells that they have, and people flooding out into the hallway,\u201d Lankford said.<\/p>\n<p>After the visit, Braun wrote a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to visit the border himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crisis surrounding this surge makes it a moral imperative for you to see firsthand what is happening\u2014and not the sanitized version of the border tour taken by some of my congressional colleagues,\u201d Braun wrote. \u201cHaving personally gone this week, I can testify to this being an inhumane, unsustainable, and dangerous situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Braun also said the group met with border agents at the edge of the Rio Grande, where foreigners often cross to enter the U.S. illegally. There, he said, \u201ccoyotes\u201d who escort people hoping to enter the country heckled the group in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of a sudden to hear from the other side of the river taunting from the smugglers and coyotes, most of it in Spanish, telling the border guards that whatever you do, we\u2019re coming,\u201d said Braun. \u201cThat kind of hit home in such an anecdotal way because it is one story that kind of is a metaphor for what\u2019s happening all up and down the border,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Coyotes charge anywhere from $4,000 to $20,000 to escort foreigners across the border. Traffickers bringing men, women, and children across the U.S.-Mexico border made as much as $14 million a day in February, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-mexico-border-traffickers-million-february\">report<\/a> published last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrafficking is a multibillion-dollar industry,\u201d former Tucson Border Patrol Chief Roy Villareal told Fox News.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican senator claims a Biden official \u201casked that he delete his photos\u201d he took as he toured an overcrowded facility at the U.S.-Mexico border last week, according to a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311272,"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-4060.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Official Urged Republican Senator To Delete Photos Of Crowded Border Facility: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335213","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-4060.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Official Urged Republican Senator To Delete Photos Of Crowded Border Facility: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335213","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=335213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}