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Cruz: There's a New Problem with Biden's Media Blackout at the Border

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via AP, Pool

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) on Wednesday slammed the Biden administration's decision to cherry-pick which media outlets were allowed to tour the Carrizo Springs Border Patrol facilities where unaccompanied minors are being housed. 

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The administration has come under fire for citing the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic as a reason to bar the press from touring Border Patrol facilities. Getty photojournalist John Moore previously sounded the alarm, saying there is "no modern precedent for a full physical ban" on allowing reporters into facilities. Moore – who has photographed Border Patrol facilities under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump – shared a lengthy Twitter thread about his experience. He included a few images he was able to capture utilizing long lenses.

Cruz has been outspoken about his disapproval of the administration's media blackout and is leading a delegation to the facilities on Friday. 

"Despite your administration's refusal to admit that this is a crisis, the American people are beginning to understand the gravity of the situation. As part of our oversight duties as Senators, I and 14 of my colleagues will travel to the border this week to talk to the brave men and women on the ground who are working every today to stop this crisis and secure our border," Cruz wrote in a letter to the White House earlier this week. "But it is not enough for members of the Senate to see what is happening-the American people must see. That is why I requested that members of the media be allowed to join us. But your administration clearly and emphatically refused to offer press access. This is outrageous and hypocritical."

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The senator expressed similar concerns in a Twitter thread.

Others agreed with Cruz's assessment, including Texas State Sen. Donna Campbell (R) who said she and five other senators were denied from touring the Border Patrol facility in Donna. 

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Fox News multimedia reporter Hunter Davis shared her personal experience, saying the press was limited to what and where they could film.

The other 18 senators joining Cruz on the border trip include John Cornyn (R-TX), John Thune (R-SD), John Barrasso (R-WY), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Hoeven (R-ND), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Tom Cotton (R-AK), Steve Daines (R-MT), James Lankford (R-OK), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Thom Tillis (R-NC), John Kennedy (R-LA), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Mike Braun (R-IN) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

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