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According to ''[[Politico]]'',<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/06/28/the-white-houses-centrists-strike-back-493400</ref> White House and [[Health and Human Services]] officials were frustrated after being left with the task of cleaning up remarks about the Mexican border by Symone Sanders, senior spokesperson for Harris. Sanders told reporters that Biden and Harris “have instructed [[Xavier Becerra|[HHS Secretary Xavier] Becerra]] to do a thorough investigation” of the El Paso army base where migrant children locked in cages. But Psaki and others had to tell ''[[The Guardian]]'' that no such investigation exists. “At no time did The White House recommend a probe of the facility,” a White House spokesman told ''The Guardian''.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/kamala-harris-us-mexico-border-visit-migration</ref> [[CBS News]] also reported that a White House official said that Biden did not order a formal investigation.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-orders-probe-into-fort-bliss-base-holding-migrant-children/</ref>
According to ''[[Politico]]'',<ref>https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2021/06/28/the-white-houses-centrists-strike-back-493400</ref> White House and [[Health and Human Services]] officials were frustrated after being left with the task of cleaning up remarks about the Mexican border by Symone Sanders, senior spokesperson for Harris. Sanders told reporters that Biden and Harris “have instructed [[Xavier Becerra|[HHS Secretary Xavier] Becerra]] to do a thorough investigation” of the El Paso army base where migrant children locked in cages. But Psaki and others had to tell ''[[The Guardian]]'' that no such investigation exists. “At no time did The White House recommend a probe of the facility,” a White House spokesman told ''The Guardian''.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/kamala-harris-us-mexico-border-visit-migration</ref> [[CBS News]] also reported that a White House official said that Biden did not order a formal investigation.<ref>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-orders-probe-into-fort-bliss-base-holding-migrant-children/</ref>
==No covid testing==
====Surging covid cases====
[[File:Biden-cages-1.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Biden [[executive order]]s created a humanitarian catastrophe beginning its first day.]]
[[File:Biden-cages-1.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Biden [[executive order]]s created a humanitarian catastrophe beginning its first day.]]
The [[CBP]] was not doing any [[covid-19]] testing on people apprehended at the border.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-testing-of-border-crossing-migrants-not-being-administered-consistently/ar-BB1eifgo</ref> Pods designed to hold 80 people were stuffed with as many as 709 with no social distancing.<ref>https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1375459880723755014</ref> The ''[[Epoch Times]]:'' described conditions in the holding cells:
The [[Customs and Border Protection]] (CBP) was not doing any [[covid-19]] testing on people apprehended at the border.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-19-testing-of-border-crossing-migrants-not-being-administered-consistently/ar-BB1eifgo</ref> Pods designed to hold 80 people were stuffed with as many as 709 with no social distancing.<ref>https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1375459880723755014</ref> The ''[[Epoch Times]]:'' described conditions in the holding cells:
{{quotebox-float|"The family-unit holding cells smell like [[urine]] and [[vomit]]. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. [[Scabies]], [[lice]], the [[flu]], and COVID-19 run rampant. Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. “Any diseases that are in there, it’s being kept in there, like a petri dish. The smell is overwhelming.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-border-agent-gives-inside-account-of-overcrowded-facilities_3746058.html?amp</ref>}}
{{quotebox-float|"The family-unit holding cells smell like [[urine]] and [[vomit]]. Fights break out in the unaccompanied-minor cells. [[Scabies]], [[lice]], the [[flu]], and COVID-19 run rampant. Up to 80 individuals are squeezed into each 24- by 30-foot cell, and there aren’t enough mattresses for everyone. Sheets of plastic divide the rooms. “Any diseases that are in there, it’s being kept in there, like a petri dish. The smell is overwhelming.”<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-border-agent-gives-inside-account-of-overcrowded-facilities_3746058.html?amp</ref>}}
The National Sheriffs Association estimated that up to 50% of all illegal immigrants were covid positive.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/up-to-50-percent-of-illegal-immigrants-estimated-to-have-covid-19-national-sheriffs-association_3737923.html</ref> Congressional [[Democrat]]s blocked a [[Republican]] bill which would require the [[Department of Homeland Security]] to test all apprehensions for covid.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/16/democrats-block-gop-bill-to-test-illegal-immigrants-for-coronavirus/</ref>
The National Sheriffs Association estimated that up to 50% of all illegal immigrants were covid positive.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/up-to-50-percent-of-illegal-immigrants-estimated-to-have-covid-19-national-sheriffs-association_3737923.html</ref> Congressional [[Democrat]]s blocked a [[Republican]] bill which would require the [[Department of Homeland Security]] to test all apprehensions for covid.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/03/16/democrats-block-gop-bill-to-test-illegal-immigrants-for-coronavirus/</ref>
Restoration of the Obama era Catch and Release program led to the release of covid infected illegal aliens into American communities.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/psaki-cant-answer-illegal-aliens-test-positive-covid-released-actually-quarantine-video/</ref>
Restoration of the Obama era Catch and Release program led to the release of covid infected illegal aliens into American communities.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/03/psaki-cant-answer-illegal-aliens-test-positive-covid-released-actually-quarantine-video/</ref>
An analysis by ''The New York Times'' in July 2021 found that more than 7,500 cases have been detected since April. That represents more than 40 percent of all coronavirus cases in Immigration Control and Enfrocement (ICE) detention since the start of the pandemic in 2020. The rise in infections coincides with a surge in immigrant detention, from 14,000 detainees in April to more than 26,000 at the end of June, according to the ''Times'' analysis. ICE officials say the increase in infections is directly correlated to the increase in CBP detainees in their care, all of whom are subjected to testing, quarantine and cohorting once in the detention centers.<ref>https://thehill.com/latino/561690-coronavirus-infections-surging-in-immigration-facilities?rl=1</ref>
==Media blackout and gag rule==
==Media blackout and gag rule==