Some of the restrictions, particularly for in-person tours, are due to Covid-19 precautions, said one of the current officials.
The unofficial policy has led some agents at the border to release videos that show mass arrests and surges of migrants without permission from Washington, two officials said. The new restrictions have been passed down verbally, not through an official memo, the officials said. The DHS press office released one photo late Tuesday of a mother and child undergoing a health screening inside a border facility, but no wider shots to show conditions or sleeping arrangements.Īt the height of the Trump administration’s child separation policy in June 2018, it allowed media to tour facilities where separated children were held. Multiple news organizations, including NBC News, have requested access to or photos from inside overcrowded border processing facilities holding unaccompanied migrant children they have been denied. 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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