Jacob Weindling reports a series of tweets in Paste, July 18, 2018, by journalist Molly Crabapple showing the layers of obstruction and red tape that reporters face in trying to gain access to a detention center. “Soon enough,” writes Crabapple in one tweet, “the journalist gets tired of driving out hours each way to facilities only to be turned away, of filing papers that will only lead to demands for more papers. Their deadline comes up. Out of town journalists run out of budget and go home. And that’s the strategy.”
Denied access, reporters have been using drones with cameras to observe tent cities constructed to house children. (Gizmodo, Juine 22, 2018, by Matt Novak)