Armed federal agents faced off against reporters trying to document illegal alien migrants being boarded onto buses at the El Paso, Texas border with Mexico early Friday morning after Title 42 expired.
A federal worker in civilian clothes told the reporters they were protecting the “privacy” of the migrants. The feds moved a Border Patrol truck in front of the reporters to block their view. A protester can heard denouncing the Biden administration’s policies.
The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan posted video of the armed confrontation:
EL PASO – Authorities blocking media view of the illegal immigrants being loaded onto buses. CBP car pulls up right in front of us, supposedly because media was getting too close pic.twitter.com/9K56E11LnZ
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) May 12, 2023
TPUSA’s Savanah Hernandez was also there trying to document the migrants being boarded on buses:
EL PASO- Border Patrol agents try to block the press from filming the first bus being loaded with illegal immigrants being brought into the US from Juarez.
EL PASO- Border Patrol agents try to block the press from filming the first bus being loaded with illegal immigrants being brought into the US from Juarez.
One CBP agent asks me to back up stating “we’re trying to protect the privacy please” pic.twitter.com/WH9R0mm34l
How far is Joe Biden going to stop the American people from seeing inside the Donna CBP facility?
Biden sent a political operative from DC to block our cameras and even threatened another senator to obstruct legitimate congressional oversight. pic.twitter.com/vHT2U7Nh1z
Border patrol in El Paso blocking the media from filming illegal aliens boarding a bus at gate 42 along the border wall…but not the drone via @DailySignalpic.twitter.com/oZKQU9Fe3Y
.@TimKennedyJr1’s drone footage shows border authorities loading the illegals immigrants onto buses while blocking the view of media (many of whom have stuck around for hours to show Americans what is going on) pic.twitter.com/LHysyEGu0J
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) May 12, 2023
Meanwhile in Yuma, Arizona, no such restrictions on the press:
Two border patrol buses just arrived. The crowds are still coming through the gap in bigger and bigger groups here in Yuma County @FOX10Phoenixpic.twitter.com/M87wBsBvL8
— Stephanie Bennett (@StephBennettTV) May 12, 2023
— Stephanie Bennett (@StephBennettTV) May 12, 2023
This is the scene at the border west of Yuma, Arizona as migrants load a bus as Title 42 ended at 8:59 p.m. MT. A second group of migrants is waiting to get on to a bus after Border Patrol agents process them
