"Department of Homeland Security officials are stonewalling lawmakers who try to make unannounced visits to immigrant detention facilities throughout the country and are closing off public roads along the U.S.-Mexico border in an effort to keep journalists from reporting on the growing illegal immigration crisis, federal law enforcement officials told TheBlaze.

The officials said senior supervisors have made scheduling visits ahead of time mandatory at detention facilities, turned back officials from unannounced visits, and that Border Patrol agents have been forced to clean up facilities and transfer illegal aliens from unauthorized holding cells before they are inspected by lawmakers. Reporters have also been stopped by DHS officials from traveling along public access roads near the Rio Grande, where most of illegal immigrant children and groups are crossing into the U.S."

More: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/...essional-visit/

I am not bragging on myself nor was I being remarkably prescient when I pointed out on an earlier thread the same policy was practiced by the Soviets back in the 30s.

Medical staff warned: Keep your mouths shut about illegal immigrants or face arrest

"Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) is comparing a trip to an immigration detention facility to a trip to the former Soviet Union on Tuesday.

“The media can come, it’ll be a 40 minute tour, but you can’t ask questions, you can’t talk to the staff, you can’t talk to the medical doctors, you can’t talk to the children,” Bridenstine said on CNN’s “New Day” of the government’s terms for his upcoming tour. “If you would like to take pictures, you can’t do that, but we’ll send pictures to you.”

“This is the kind of media that they had in the former Soviet Union,” Bridenstine said later...

Later in the week, the Department of Health and Human Services granted Bridenstine and members of the media a scheduled visit to the detention center on July 12 — but only on the conditions that pictures, questions and interactions with those in the facility are not allowed.

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/ji...ion-108655.html [emphasis added]

Note the key word: granted access. Like being "granted" an audience with royalty or with the Pope? For heaven's sake He's a Congressman. In addition once allowed in by the KGB, oops, I meant HHS, severe restrictions are in place as to what you can say and do.

This just stinks. Welcome to Obama's version of the American Gulag.