A United States senator trying to gain access to a federal facility housing immigrant children in Texas near the Mexico border and talk to a supervisor has been turned away after police were summoned.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, told one of the police officers in Brownsville that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ team and the Office of Refugee Resettlement are trying to hide what’s happening behind the doors of the former Walmart.
Merkley’s office posted video on Facebook of the encounter Sunday evening. A supervisor at the facility told Merkley he was not allowed to make any statements, and referred him to a phone number of the public affairs office in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.
(AP)
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This should be a concern to all citizens, what are they hiding? From a U.S. Senator no less. Frightening.
rt start your meds again,please! you’re a very sick guy obsessed with your hatred for our gr8 prez.verrry scary!!!!!
They’re not hiding anything. If you show up at the door of a federal facility they’re not going to let you in. Why would a senator be different? Since when do senators have special powers?
well Millhouse you are wrong!! there have been many interviews in federal prisons!! duh!! All the windows and doors have been blacked out what are they hiding? hum how can all those children shower in a Walmart!! or try and get good sleep when packed right next to one another, but the biggest thing is why are the children being punished!! how horrible this is! Well then lets get the President himself to go in with reporters and let us see what is going on in there !!