Photos of Migrant Detention Highlight Biden’s Border Secrecy
The new president faces growing criticism for the apparent secrecy at the border, including from fellow Democrats.
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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration has tried for weeks to keep the public from seeing images like those that emerged Monday showing immigrant children in U.S. custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions. Administration officials have steadfastly refused to call the detention of more than 15,000 children in U.S. custody, or the conditions they’re living under, a crisis. But they have stymied most efforts by…
