House Republicans blast Biden admin for allowing CBS to film at border facility but not Congress
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House Republicans are slamming the Biden administration for what they say is a "clear double standard" in how it treated lawmakers versus members of the media following their recent trip to the southern border.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio and Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., penned a scathing letter Thursday to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the ongoing migrant crisis.
Mentioned in the letter was how the Johnson-led deligation in Eagle Pass, Texas last week was blocked from taking photos and videos of the border facility they toured. Except that same facility was featured in a report that aired on Sunday's installment of CBS' "Face the Nation."
"Even as CBP refused to allow Members of Congress to take photographs, House Republicans learned that CBP later gave CBS’s Face the Nation access to the same Eagle Pass facility. Face the Nation was also permitted to take photographs and record video while on the premises. This is a clear double standard designed to hide the truth of the crisis you have created at the southern border," the Republicans told Mayorkas.
The "Face the Nation" segment showed host Margaret Brennan touring the Eagle Pass facility, telling viewers about the food and care provided to illegal immigrants who are processed.
A source close to GOP leadership told Fox News Digital that the border patrol agents seen escorting Brennan in the report were the same ones who led the Republican lawmakers during their visit.... (Read more)
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