Country Security Minister Alejandro Mayorkas spoke with Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday about the Biden government restricting media access to the federal facilities where thousands of migrant children are being held after crossing the border has.
The host of Fox News Sunday said that President Biden’s promise to maintain a transparent White House asks why reporters do not have access to the Customs and Border Patrol’s housing facilities, not even during Mayorkas’ visit to the border on Friday.
The secretary begins his answer by saying that “we are in the midst of a pandemic.”
“We are focused on our operations, in carrying out our operations, in an overcrowded border patrol facility where hundreds of vulnerable migrant children are located,” Mayorkas said.
“We are working to provide footage so that the American public can see the border patrol stations,” he continued.
But Wallace said it sounds like an excuse, pointing out that there is a safe condition in which a pool reporter and camera staff can enter one of the facilities and pick up the children, even in a coronavirus pandemic.
“We are working to provide access,” Mayorkas replied.
“And certainly reporters can see the Department of Health and Human Services where children have been sheltered for a longer period of time,” he added.