Republican senators who visited overcrowded migrant detention facilities said they refused to delete pictures they took after a Biden administration aide asked them to.
“There was one of Biden’s representatives. I felt sorry for the lady because she actually talked to me about deleting a picture, but by the time she got to me, all those other pictures were taken, and that shows you the hypocrisy,” Sen Mike Braun of Indiana said.
The group was touring a facility in Donna, Texas, that has been overrun by thousands of migrants for weeks.
“None of us would have gone down there if we were going to be muzzled,” Braun added, noting that Border Patrol officials were also asking that no one take photos, but that “they were telling us that because they had to.”
Braun also updated Indianans on what he witnessed:
Due to the mass overcrowding, the Biden administration has committed to spending as much as $86 million to house migrant children and families in hotels, they are coming so quickly and in such great numbers.
The Washington Examiner added:
Those photos showed children as young as 3 years old jammed into the facilities that Braun described as the worst situation for migrants in 20 years. He earlier provided Secrets with a video of migrants being held by the dozens under a bridge.
In a debriefing of the tour, Braun said that one of the first stops was with border agents at the edge of the Rio Grande, where illegal immigrants typically cross. There, he said, the “coyotes,” who charge $4,000 to $20,000 to get migrants across, heckled the group in Spanish.
“All of a sudden to hear from the other side of the river taunting from the smugglers and coyotes, most of it in Spanish, telling the border guards that whatever you do, we’re coming,” said Braun. “That kind of hit home in such an anecdotal way because it is one story that kind of is a metaphor for what’s happening all up and down the border.
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