周三，拜登政府首次允许记者进入德克萨斯州边境设施住宅年轻移民在拒绝接触新闻媒体成员数周后，他越过了南部边境。但它继续将记者们拒之门外，类似拘留的设施远远超过了他们的能力。
周三，一名记者和摄像人员被允许进入德克萨斯州卡里佐斯普林斯的一个设施，该设施由美国卫生和公众服务部难民安置办公室管理。
他们陪同一个由白宫官员和国会议员组成的代表团参观了未成年人设施，这些未成年人在没有父母陪同的情况下到达边境。他们看到了收容和用餐区，以及一个医疗诊所，但不允许他们与任何未成年人交谈。
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有人看到无人陪伴的移民儿童在一个停车场走来走去
在乔·拜登总统计划举行其总统任期内第一次正式的单独新闻发布会的前一天，政府批准了媒体采访，在新闻发布会上，他可能会面临政府为什么不让新闻媒体进入的问题。
这也发生在拜登说他是的同一天挖掘副总统贺锦丽领导他的政府努力阻止来自中美洲的移民潮，就像总统第一次带记者到白宫开会一样移居。
无人陪伴的未成年人涌入边境给总统带来了巨大的政治威胁遭到共和党人的抨击感谢他对局势的处理。
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在白宫官员的一次参观中，孩子们在抓拍的泳池视频中踢足球
卡里索温泉设施在特朗普政府时期使用，但在2019年7月关闭，上个月重新开放，以容纳越来越多的孤身跨境儿童。前总统唐纳德·特朗普允许记者进入，尽管录音设备不允许进入。
官员们告诉代表包括美国广播公司新闻在内的几家美国电视网的记者，该设施目前有766名13至17岁的男孩，但从未达到952人的容量。虽然记者们不被允许与孩子们说话，他们看到孩子们在操场上散步、踢足球和打篮球，但参观该设施的国会议员们却被禁止。
官员们说，该设施没有达到最大容量，因为他们必须为测试呈阳性的青少年留出空间新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)据记者称，当他们到达该设施时，其中108人检测呈阳性。
这群人还被带到一个空教室，录下了新来者的成堆衣服的视频，并看到员工在大楼外面的地上走来走去。
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在白宫官员巡回演出期间，孩子们在一个水池视频抓拍的画面中打篮球
政府继续封锁边界沿线的其他设施，这些设施实际上已经远远超出了他们的能力。白宫提到了对隐私和冠状病毒大流行的担忧。
卡里索·斯普林斯·HHS监狱和其他类似的监狱是美国当局在南部边境抓获的许多无人陪伴的未成年人的第二步。
首先，他们通常被带到由美国海关和边境保护局管理的类似拘留的设施，根据法律，他们在那里最多只能停留72小时，然后被转移到HHS的庇护所或被送到赞助商那里居住。这些设施不像HHS的设施那样有处理儿童问题的能力。
最近几周，由于HHS一直在努力提供足够的空间，CBP的监狱已经挤满了成千上万等待转移的未成年人，创下了记录。HHS最近表示，将在达拉斯和圣地亚哥的会议中心开设特殊接收设施，以帮助更多的未成年人脱离CBP的监管。
该部门计划在卡里索斯普林斯开设第二家机构，并在得克萨斯州佩科斯市开设另一家类似的在线机构，以容纳总共2500名移民儿童。
截至本周，约有10，500名未成年人被HHS拘留，近5，000名被CBP拘留。
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白宫官员和国会议员参观游泳池时拍摄的视频截图
周一，民主党众议员亨利·库勒尔第一次瞥见拥挤的CBP设施公布的照片显示移民被装进了德克萨斯唐娜的CBP溢出设施。第二天，CBP发布了自己的视频展示了唐娜工厂的内部和德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的另一个工厂。
在特朗普的领导下，CBP官员确实允许媒体成员参观入境处理中心和边境巡逻站，但出于隐私考虑，相机不允许拍摄内地。
当时的副总统迈克·彭斯在2019年7月带着媒体来到两个移民拘留中心，特朗普政府因那里拥挤、不卫生的条件而受到抨击，这次访问产生了彭斯站在数百名被塞进笼子的移民面前的戏剧性画面。
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2019年7月12日，副总统迈克·彭斯视察了得克萨斯州唐娜的拘留设施。
周三，当被问及为什么政府仍然不让新闻媒体成员进入其他设施时，白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基说:“我们也愿意提供进入那里的机会。”。“这只是向媒体提供更多渠道的第一步。”
共和党人批评拜登团队对移民来美国没有做好准备，因为拜登取消了前总统唐纳德·特朗普的限制性移民政策。
与此同时，白宫指责特朗普——称他的政府系统地拆散家庭，以不人道的方式对待逃离暴力和贫困的人，忽视或拆除为处理他们而建立的系统，从而加剧了局势。
特朗普政府将未成年人拒之门外，并将儿童与父母分开是一项政策，结果数百名儿童仍然分开。另一方面，拜登明确表示，他不想拒绝独自抵达边境的儿童和青少年。
Biden administration allows access to border facility -- but not ones over capacity
The Biden administration on Wednesday -- for the first time -- let journalists into a Texas border facility housingyoung migrantswho crossed the southern border, after weeks of denying access to members of the news media. But it has continued to keep reporters out of other,detention-like facilitiesfilled well over their capacities.
A reporter and camera crew were permitted on Wednesday to enter a facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
They accompanied a delegation of White House officials and members of Congress touring the facility for minors who have arrived at the border unaccompanied by parents. They saw intake and dining areas, as well as a medical clinic, but they were not allowed to speak to any of the minors.
The administration granted the press access a day before President Joe Biden is scheduled to hold the first formal, solo news conference of his presidency, where he is likely to face questions about why the administration was keeping the news media out.
It also came the same day Biden said he wastapping Vice President Kamala Harristo lead his administration's efforts to stem the flow of migration from Central America and just as the president -- for the first time -- brought reporters into a White House meeting onimmigration.
The influx of unaccompanied minors on the border has posed a potent political threat to the president, who hascome under fire from Republicansfor his handling of the situation.
Used during the Trump administration but shuttered in July 2019, the Carrizo Springs facility was reopened last month to accommodate the increasing number of unaccompanied children crossing the border. Reporters had been allowed in under former President Donald Trump, although recording devices were not allowed inside.
There are currently 766 boys ranging in age from 13 to 17 years old in the facility, which has never reached its capacity of 952, officials told the reporter, who represented several U.S. television networks, including ABC News. While the journalists were not allowed to speak with the children, whom they saw walking around the grounds and playing soccer and basketball, the members of Congress touring the facility were.
Officials said the facility is not at capacity since they have to set aside space for teens who test positive forCOVID-19when they arrive at the facility and that 108 have tested positive, according to the reporter.
The group was also taken to an empty classroom, recorded video of piles of clothing for new arrivals and saw employees walking around outside buildings on the ground.
The administration has continued to block access to other facilities along the border that actually have far surpassed their capacities. The White House has cited concerns over privacy and the coronavirus pandemic.
The Carrizo Springs HHS facility, and others like it, represent the second step for many unaccompanied minors picked up by U.S. authorities on the southern border.
First, they are typically taken to detention-like facilities run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where they are, by law, only supposed to remain for up to 72 hours before being transferred to HHS shelters or sent to live with sponsors. Those facilities do not have the same capacity for dealing with children that the HHS ones do.
In recent weeks, the CBP facilities have become overwhelmed with thousands of minors waiting to be transferred -- a record -- as HHS has struggled to provide enough space. HHS has recently said it was opening special intake facilities at convention centers in Dallas and San Diego to help take more minors out of CBP custody.
The department plans to open a second facility in Carrizo Springs and is bringing another similar facility online in Pecos, Texas, to house a total of 2,500 migrant kids.
As of this week, there were approximately 10,500 minors in HHS custody, with nearly 5,000 in CBP custody.
The first glimpses inside a crowded CBP facility came Monday from Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, whoreleased photographs showing migrantspacked into a CBP overflow facility in Donna, Texas. The next day, CBPreleased its own videoshowing the inside of the Donna facility and another one in El Paso, Texas.
Under Trump, CBP officials did allow members of the media to visit a port of entry processing center and border patrol station, but due to privacy concerns, cameras were not allowed to film the interior areas.
When then-Vice President Mike Pence took the press with him to two migrant detention centers in July 2019 -- with the Trump administration under fire for crowded, unsanitary conditions there -- the visit generated dramatic images of Pence standing before hundreds of migrants crammed into cages.
"We're also open to providing access there," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday when pressed on why the administration was still keeping members of the news media out of the other facilities. "And this is just the first step in the process of providing greater access to the media."
Republicans have criticized the Biden team for, they say, being unprepared for migrants coming to the United States in response to Biden rolling back former President Donald Trump's restrictive immigration policies.
The White House, meanwhile, has pointed fingers at Trump -- saying his administration exacerbated the situation by systematically ripping families apart, treating people fleeing violence and poverty with inhumanity and neglecting or dismantling the system set up to deal with them.
Trump's administration turned away minors and separated children from their parents as a matter of policy -- and hundreds still remain apart as a consequence. Biden, on the other hand, has made clear he does not want to turn away the children and teenagers arriving at the border alone.
