Posted on 03/17/2021 7:33:10 AM PDT by Brilliant
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency's capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials.
The officials say the restrictions are seen as an unofficial "gag order" and are often referred to that way among colleagues. The officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media about the topic.
Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for "ride-alongs" 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...
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Isn’t this rich!!!
Hide the problem and their handling of it from everyone!!!
Sure why not? It’s what communists states do, and that’s where we are.
I would just offer this humble opinion....whatever mess that they think they have currently....is about 30-percent of what they will have by mid-summer. This will only get worse.
Biden has zero ideas...zero attention span...and no ability turn anything positive out of this mess.
Hey....Biden never promised to be a full disclosure President.
“Hide the problem and their handling of it from everyone!!!”
I sincerely believe that the Biden admin doesn’t have to hide anything. As long as the media doesn’t tell people they should be upset, they won’t be. The media can cover it, as long as they don’t present it in a negative fashion, American idiots will shrug it off.
Wow. Information blackout.
Putin, Xi, Khamenei, Kim Jung Un, all smiling in agreement.
Persons will quit and go to the press to get this out. They don’t need 30,000 18 year olds loose at the border.
SOP for dictators..................
Funny how the media doesn’t report the leaks during Lefty administrations.
I expect we’ll get info from “anonymous sources”, anyway. That is how these things usually work.
It is also amazing that Yahoo posted thus. Yahoo is very leftist
So much for “transparency”.
The only thing transparent about the Harris/Biden regime are the fancy raiments tailored for them by the same person who wove the invisible cloak for the Emperor and his entourage. Their duplicity and prevarications stand visible to all. Some, however, will deny the evidence of their eyes.
The corrupt sheep media will helpfully block all information.
Biden’s open border crisis will quickly become an existential crisis. Remember what Reagan said: A nation without borders is not a nation. We are headed for “not a nation.”
They're not gonna be on the border. The Feds are making plans to spread them throughout Texas. It's an invasion strategy.
If Trump had done this, “whistle blowers” would be crapping all over themselves to feed the media.
No whistleblowers allowed with democrats in charge.
He’s our ‘Mortimer Snerd’ President.... with Camel face and Co. feeding lines to him
Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for “ride-alongs” with agents along the southern land border...
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That’s transparency.
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