Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas blamed the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC for the press not being granted access to facilities holding unaccompanied minors at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Anchor Martha Raddatz asked, “Mr. Secretary, I want to stop you there, and I want to know, if you’ve got this great plan, why will you not let the media in? I understand privacy concerns, but will you let them in today or this week?”
Mayorkas said, “Let me be clear, we’re in the midst of a pandemic. We’re talking about a crowded border patrol station on operations. At the same time, and let me assure you that we are working on a plan to provide access so that people can see what is going on in a border patrol station. I would encourage people to also see a Department of Health and Human Services facility where the children are sheltered, and where they belong, and where we are moving them too.”
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