Armed federal agents clashed with reporters trying to document the boarding of illegal foreign migrants on buses at the El Paso, Texas border with Mexico early Friday morning after Title 42 expired.
A plainclothes federal worker told reporters they were protecting the “privacy” of migrants. The Feds moved a Border Patrol truck in front of the reporters to block their view. A protester may hear denouncing the policies of the Biden administration.
The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan posted a video of the armed confrontation:
EL PASO — Authorities are blocking media view of illegal immigrants being loaded onto buses. The CBP car pulls up right in front of us, supposedly because the media were getting too close pic.twitter.com/9K56E11LnZ
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) May 12, 2023
TPUSA’s Savanah Hernandez was also there to try and document migrants being boarded on buses:
EL PASO — Border Patrol agents are trying to stop the press from filming the first bus loaded with illegal immigrants brought to the United States from Juarez.
A CBP officer asks me to back up stating “we are trying to protect privacy please” pic.twitter.com/WH9R0mm34l
— Savanah Hernandez (@sav_says_) May 12, 2023
Mission accomplished. Illegal aliens boarded buses out of sight of pesky reporters.
Bus full of illegal immigrants withdrawing. We couldn’t see the actual loading pic.twitter.com/Ba8y6Ip4hD
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) May 12, 2023
Drone video by The Daily Signal’s Tim Kennedy captured the armed confrontation and the boarding of buses.
Here is the altercation between border patrol and the media from above👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/khFH8ayTdr pic.twitter.com/pkOOZfcGk2
—Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) May 12, 2023
Border Patrol in El Paso stops media from filming illegal aliens boarding a bus at gate 42 along the border wall… but not the drone via @DailySignal pic.twitter.com/oZKQU9Fe3Y
—Tim Kennedy (@TimKennedyJr1) May 12, 2023
.@TimKennedyJr1Drone footage shows border officials loading illegal immigrants onto buses while blocking the view of media (many of whom stayed for hours to show Americans what’s going on) pic.twitter.com/LHysyEGu0J
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) May 12, 2023
Meanwhile in Yuma, Arizona, no such restrictions on the press:
Two Border Patrol buses just arrived. Crowds are still crossing the gap in larger and larger groups here in Yuma County @FOX10Phoenix pic.twitter.com/M87wBsBvL8
— Stephanie Bennett (@StephBennettTV) May 12, 2023
Border Patrol agents process, take photos and check passports/other documents before loading them onto the bus @FOX10Phoenix #Yuma pic.twitter.com/Vlms0kEcwP
— Stephanie Bennett (@StephBennettTV) May 12, 2023
This is the scene at the border west of Yuma, Arizona as migrants load a bus as Title 42 ended at 8:59 PM MT. A second group of migrants waits to board a bus after Border Patrol agents process them. pic.twitter.com/jD7DsVjl2B
— Victor Calderon (@ByVicCalderon) May 12, 2023
As much of the nation sleeps, the post-Title 42 invasion has begun, protected by the Biden administration at gunpoint.