Posted on 03/17/2021 2:50:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
Is there something missing from press coverage of the thousands of unaccompanied children who have illegally crossed the U.S. border from Mexico and are now in the custody of the Biden administration? Yes, there is something missing -- pictures.
Descriptions of the conditions in which the children are being held indicate a worsening situation. "Hundreds of immigrant children and teenagers have been detained at a Border Patrol tent facility in packed conditions, with some sleeping on the floor because there aren't enough mats," The Associated Press reported recently from Donna, Texas, citing nonprofit lawyers who had interviewed the children but had not been allowed to inspect the facility.
Some of the young people had been held for more than a week -- that's against the law -- and had not been allowed to phone parents or relatives. "Despite concerns about coronavirus," the AP continued, "the children are kept so closely together that they can touch the person next to them, the lawyers said. Some have had to wait five days or more to shower, and there isn't always soap available, just shampoo, according to the lawyers."
Another report, in The Washington Post, said that "there have been more than 3,500 unaccompanied teens and children stranded in steel-and-concrete detention cells designed for adults, waiting for shelter beds to open up."
The descriptions sound bad -- and they are bad. But in the world of media and politics, what stirs popular outrage in a story like this is pictures. It's one thing for Americans to read descriptions of young people in jail cells. It's another thing for Americans to see photos and videos of young people in jail cells. Remember the uproar over the Trump administration's so-called "kids in cages" policy? It was stoked by media organizations showing pictures of what was happening.
So now, the Biden White House appears to be determined not to let Americans see what is going on. The administration has not given the press access to the detention facilities. Nor has it given access to the nonprofit lawyers mentioned above, even though the administration is legally required to do so. On the migrant issue, there is a Biden Blackout.
Making things even worse, the Biden White House insists that it "supports transparency" in its handling of the migrant crisis. At Monday's briefing, a reporter asked spokeswoman Jen Psaki, "What is the status of allowing cameras into some of these facilities? We've been asking for weeks about whether or not the press will ever get a chance to see either the Border Patrol or the HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] facilities."
"We continue to support transparency and -- from here, from the White House," Psaki said. "And [the Department of Homeland Security] oversees some of the facilities. HHS oversees some of the facilities. I know that they're working through how to provide access in a way that is -- abides by COVID protocols and also protects the privacy of people who are being -- who are staying in those facilities."
Psaki was doing the two-step being seen more and more often in the briefings: refusing to answer a question and referring reporters to an agency which won't answer the question, either. The bottom line is: No matter what it says, the Biden administration will not allow the press to see what is going on. But it's not just the press. Those nonprofit lawyers who talked to children who had been held in tents in Donna, Texas, were not allowed to see the facilities, even though they had a legal right to do so. From the AP story:
"A 1997 court settlement known as the Flores agreement sets standards for government detention of immigrant children. Lawyers are entitled under Flores to conduct oversight of child detention. The Justice Department declined to comment ... on why the lawyers were denied access. The Biden administration has not responded to several requests from The Associated Press seeking access to the tent."
Nonprofit lawyers played a big role in the attacks on the Trump administration's migrant policy during the "kids in cages" uproar. Now, the Biden administration is making sure they don't see what is going on. No matter what Psaki says, it's the opposite of transparency. And sooner or later, through political pressure or a court order or smuggled photos or something, Americans will get a look at what is happening.
It's a shame that all the fact-checkers were fired.
What it amounts to is: what you don’t see, you do NOT remember.
The Biden government coverup of everything they do is criminal, illegal and not what this government has ever been about and I, personally, think they, personally, each and every one of them, should be arrested for all their wrong doings. Pelosi and Schumer are the ring leaders and let’s not forget Hunter and Joe’s relationship with China. There is no excuse for covering anything up in our government.
WHAT is GOING on is the killing of our country to make countries like Germany and Eastern Europe were during WWII with their Jewish population and other unwanted peoples. In less than 10 years we will be a wildland of ignorance on a par with all the intended cruelty,
I read another media report about the children and over-crowding but they inserted the line: the conditions are better than under the Trump administration.
The biased media will never stop lying.
NOTE WELL: Literally 25% of Biden's vaunted E/O's dealt with migration.....as Biden smilingly undid Trump's policies.
On the campaign trail, Biden urged "a surge" at the border.......sad that no-one would be turned away.
Now he's desperately trying to cover his tracks....
<><> lying about what he said.....
<><> barring press access to the "detention" facilities
<><> (Obama cages where kids sleep on the bare floor). <><> barring pro bono lawyers even though he is legally required to do so.
NOTE WELL: Literally 25% of Biden's vaunted E/O's dealt with migration.....as Biden sap-happily undid Trump's successful policies.
Some enterprising reporters need to look into this.
What kind of a culture sends children unaccompanied across scorching, trackless deserts in the company of human slavers, gang bangers and God knows what else?
I despise these people. They’ve no regard for anyone other than their own selfish interests.
Selling and re-selling their own children so they can push their way into our country.
Those people are too stupid to live but they will suffer from the economic disaster they voted for, unfortunately so will the rest of us.....
The uproar over the Trump “kids in cages” was stoked by media photos? Of what? The Obama admin’s kids in cages? Why is this article perpetuating the myth of Trump admin putting kids in cages?
“What it amounts to is: what you don’t see, you do NOT remember.”
And who controls what we see? The media watched by most people, known as the mainstream media which is a partner of the left.
Biden housing migrant kids in sealed, sunless shipping containers......with no sanitary facilities.
And who controls what we see? The media watched by most people, known as the mainstream media which is a partner of the left.
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Local news also being a branch of big MSM parrots the party line briefly and then is normally followed by big MSM to further the propaganda
OAN and Newsnax at least offer a broad alternative
Faux trying a minor comeback but has disappeared minus a check in with Maria B. Even there it’s interviews with the realization nothing will change unless true voter ID is instituted and tight absentee voting enforced and no more unfettered mail in ballots
All done at local and state levels with a bullet proof if possible non interference from state legal systems Re the procedures
Robert’s did his usual by ignoring that while cloaking it in not our job but the job of “ elected representatives”. Not appointed judges
How many of these “Children” are 16-17 year old gang bangers and criminals?
“OAN and Newsnax at least offer a broad alternative”
Problem is that the low information voters don’t view those.
Hopefully for the low information voters, “live and learn” will steer them in the right direction.
We have open borders and closed schools.
Pallor Man Bad
Reminds me of a former president who promised he would bring us the “most transparent administration in history”.
Turned out to be the most secretive.
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