There’s only one thing no open on the southern border: media access to Customs and Border Protection operations. In a totalitarian effort to hide the truth, the Biden government blocked the press.
Veteran photojournalist John Moore raised the alarm on Twitter over the weekend: “I respectfully request US Customs and Border Protection to stop blocking media access to its border operations,” he wrote. “I photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump, but now – zero access is granted to the media. These long lens images taken from the Mexican side. “
That’s right: he himself had to cross the border to shoot without restrictions. There is more freedom of the press in Mexico than in the United States.
Since most migrants are passing through federal lands, feds have the power to keep the press at bay, but Moore says there is “no precedent” for them to do so on that scale. It can only be because Biden wants to hide the extent of his failure at the border – and how many people are getting signals to enter.
Moore is right to say that “showing the United States’ response to the current increase in immigrants is exactly the role of the media”. And the Biden team’s unprecedented effort to avoid this scrutiny is truly shameful.