{"id":524244,"date":"2022-12-09T22:54:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-government-banned-ny-post-reporter-from-border-ride-along\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T22:54:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:54:35","slug":"us-government-banned-ny-post-reporter-from-border-ride-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-government-banned-ny-post-reporter-from-border-ride-along\/","title":{"rendered":"#US government banned NY Post reporter from border ride-along"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b01e99deda\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b01e99deda\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-government-banned-ny-post-reporter-from-border-ride-along\/#%E2%80%9CUS_government_banned_NY_Post_reporter_from_border_ride-along%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;US government banned NY Post reporter from border ride-along&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CUS_government_banned_NY_Post_reporter_from_border_ride-along%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;US government banned NY Post reporter from border ride-along&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>The US Customs and Border Protection agency\u2019s mission statement reads, in part, that it aims to \u201cprotect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation\u2019s economic prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, under the Biden administration, that exalted purpose includes a new directive: Protect the American people from me.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, I was denied permission by the federal agency from going on a \u201cride-along\u201d with Border Patrol agents in Texas in the coming final days of Title 42. The Trump-era pandemic policy had allowed border agents to return migrants to Mexico for public health reasons, without first hearing their asylum claims.<\/p>\n<p>The policy is set to expire on Dec. 21. When it does, I want to be on the ground in El Paso \u2014 where Texas authorities are expecting a 40 percent increase in migrant crossings. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/sundland-park-new-mexico-border-hole-08.jpg?w=916\" alt=\"The Post's reporter may have been blocked by US Customs and Border Protection over this story, which exposed a hole in the Texas-Mexico border.\" class=\"wp-image-24959220\" width=\"618\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/sundland-park-new-mexico-border-hole-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1236 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/sundland-park-new-mexico-border-hole-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=927 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/sundland-park-new-mexico-border-hole-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=618 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/sundland-park-new-mexico-border-hole-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=309 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/sundland-park-new-mexico-border-hole-08.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>The Post\u2019s reporter may have been blocked by US Customs and Border Protection over this story, which exposed a hole in the Texas-Mexico border wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Embedding reporters and photographers with agents while they patrol the 1,951-mile southern border with Mexico has traditionally allowed us to report on the dramatic rise in migrants from Latin America and other places who try to cross illegally into the US. It offers journalists a firsthand glimpse of the obstacles faced by the federal agency in dealing with the historic flow of migrants, many of them escaping violence, political repression and dire economic disparities in their home countries. This fiscal year, migrant border crossings topped a historic high of 2.76 million people.<\/p>\n<p>I have been embedded with Border Patrol at least half a dozen times over the years. This time, I was told Wednesday by a local US Customs and Border Protection spokesman in Texas, \u201cI have some bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> for you: Washington said no. There\u2019s nothing we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/migrants-almost-drown-crossing-rio-grande-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Migrants have risked their lives \u2014\u00a0with many dying \u2014\u00a0trying to cross the Rio Grande into the US.\" class=\"wp-image-24959741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/migrants-almost-drown-crossing-rio-grande-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/migrants-almost-drown-crossing-rio-grande-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/migrants-almost-drown-crossing-rio-grande-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Migrants have risked their lives \u2014\u00a0with many dying \u2014\u00a0trying to cross the Rio Grande into the US.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">James Keivom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the last few years, I have <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed along the border in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.   I have written about the hundreds of migrants who have died crossing parched scrubland in high summer, and the smugglers who profit from their desperation. I have interviewed ranchers \u2014 who have formed their own militias to protect their land from traffickers dealing in both drugs and human cargo \u2014 and landowners angry at the federal government for building the border wall through their properties in Texas.   <\/p>\n<p>I have reported from Mexico and Guatemala to give readers a better understanding of why so many migrants are risking their lives to come to the US. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Embedding journalists with patrol agents has offered a first-hand glimpse of the obstacles faced by the federal agency in dealing with the historic flow of migrants.\" class=\"wp-image-24959245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Embedding journalists with patrol agents has offered a firsthand glimpse of the obstacles faced by the federal agency in dealing with the historic flow of migrants.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have also done stories on the daily struggles of the men and women who are the front line of defense on the country\u2019s border, patrolling lonely stretches of mountain and desert, often saving the lives of migrant children carelessly tossed over the border wall by ruthless smugglers, or others who face near-drowning crossing the Rio Grande.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure why I am considered such a threat to US Customs and Border Protection. No reason was given for the refusal to allow me on a ride-along. The White House did not return my calls for comment Friday, nor did a spokesman for US Customs and Border Protection in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-09.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A 40 percent increase in migrant border crossings is expected when Title 42 is repealed on Dec. 21.\" class=\"wp-image-24959250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/el-paso-border-09.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A 40 percent increase in migrant border crossings is expected when Title 42 is repealed on Dec. 21.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But if I had to guess why I have become such a threat, it probably has to do with a story I wrote in the first year of the Biden administration \u2014 reporting a 20-foot gap in the border wall in New Mexico, and how a group of desperate Border Patrol agents banded together and used discarded construction materials to weld it shut. <\/p>\n<p>The hole, located at Border Monument Three \u2014 one of the original 276 markers erected after the Mexican-American War in 1848 \u2014 had been left open when the Biden administration halted work on the border wall in January 2021. The gap was allowing thousands of smugglers and migrants to cross into the US with relative ease, according to Border Patrol in the area.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/alejandro-mayorkas-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The Post is calling on Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, to reconsider the decision to bar Vincent from a ride-along.\" class=\"wp-image-24959210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/alejandro-mayorkas-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/alejandro-mayorkas-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/alejandro-mayorkas-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Post is calling on Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security, to reconsider the decision to bar Vincent from a ride-along.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Graeme Sloan\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time, Border Patrol agents told me that when President Biden pulled $2.2 billion in funding that his predecessor had earmarked for the construction of the border wall, thousands of tons of steel and other building materials were left to rust along the border wall. <\/p>\n<p>My story landed on the front page of The Post, under the headline \u201cHole in the Wall,\u201d and it likely rankled a few bureaucrats at the US Department of Homeland Security, which oversees US Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p>But as a reporter, I consider it my job to \u201crankle\u201d \u2014 to expose waste and wrongdoing, no matter who is in power. <\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m now going to the top, and asking you, Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security, to please reconsider your edict against me. 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