sundance:
Feds move to limit reporters on official visit to Oklahoma holding site for border kids http://t.co/MSWCTPT7ir
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) July 8, 2014
WASHINGTON DC – As members of Congress and reporters ask to visit federal facilities housing children who have been apprehended by the U.S. in recent months, federal officials are slapping limits on members of the news media who want a glimpse inside.
For example, an email sent to news organizations by Jesus Garcia, a public affairs officer for the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, sets out a number of restrictions on reporters if they want to visit “Unaccompanied Alien Children” being held at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
“The purpose of this 40-minute tour is to show members of the press the interior of the shelter and explain the care we provide while these children remain in our custody,” Garcia’s email told reporters.
“The tour guide will detail what goes on from room to room and the services youth are provided on a daily basis,” Garcia added in an email that was forwarded to reporters by Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), who had been barred from visiting the Fort Sill alien children shelter last week.
But the HHS email to reporters made clear that journalists won’t exactly be allowed to do anything related to their jobs while on the tour of the facility at Fort Sill, other than jot some things down in a notebook.
What’s so “rediculous” about the requests? These are minors. No matter where they’re from, or what your feeling about them, once they set fort of U.S. land they have rights
They are children. Media across this great country are not allowed to photo/video minors without the permission of a parent or guardian. Your outrage at the immigration problem doesn’t change that.
And finally, these are the same restrictions set on local/national media during the media tours at the Lackland AFB and Ventura County sites as well.
Only here, you have a bully, first-term congressman up for reelection using the children (at a facility not even in his district) as political pawns.
@Keith Pannell: Are the staff minors? And, even if they can’t photograph the children, why can’t they ask questions?
No, the reason for this is so the administration can present the needy waifs along with their own sanitized narrative without any of the pesky follow-ups.
@Bill: Sorry Bill! We mustn’t forget that Keith is a purveyor of the finest “Kool Aid” in the land. Any further useful exchange is doomed and not worth the time to respond.
Federales do not want stories like this one coming out:
Adults claiming to be family members are appearing “several times” to pick up different unaccompanied children.
Fewer than 50% of these children are being put with their own parents.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/07/Leaked-Documents-Family-Members-Appearing-Several-Times-to-Pick-Up-Illegal-Immigrant-Kids
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/07/07/Leaked-Internal-DHS-Report-Admits-Lack-of-Deportation-Significant-Factor-in-Border-Crisis
Who are these adults who keep grabbing all these minors?
Sex traffickers?
Drug cartels looking for mules?
Gangs looking for new young members?
And now even push-back from Lefties running sanctuary cities!….
The Los Angeles Police Department will now only honor requests from Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep someone in custody if there has been a judicial determination of probable cause or a warrant from a judicial officer, Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
“The federal government is in charge of enforcing federal immigration laws, not us at the local level,” Garcetti said in a speech at City Hall. “That responsibility can’t be forced onto local law enforcement officials who already have stretched budgets.”
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/07/07/lapd-to-no-longer-comply-with-feds-on-immigration-hold-requests/
Yet another Democrat incorrectly tries to play the “Jesus card”: HHS Official on Flood of Illegal Immigrants: ‘Jesus Was a Refugee’
While Jesus did travel around the Middle East, he was without question not a “Refugee” .
@Keith Pannell: You are NOT this stupid are you!! The MSM and Democrats would be screaming if a Republican was in the Whitehouse and you know it!! Give me a break idiot!!
this is a take over of America, COMMING FROM ALL SIDES AND EVEN FROM THE MINUTES CRACKS, VIRUS OF ALL COLOR INVADING,
IT LOOK LIKE AN INVASION OF RATS, YOU DON’T SEE THEM COMING,