據美聯社3月23日報道，幾周來，拜登政府一直試圖阻止公眾看到有關媒體22日曝光的一組照片。
被曝光的這些圖片顯示了被美國拘押在邊境的移民兒童蓋着鋁箔制應急毯睡在地墊上，以塑料隔斷成羣分開。
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 US custody at the border sleeping on mats under foil blankets, separated in groups by plastic partitions.
被美國拘押在邊境的移民兒童 圖源：Axios
報道稱，政府官員堅決拒絕將美國邊境上逾1.5萬名兒童的生活狀況稱作危機。並且他們阻撓了外部人士的參與。
Administration officials have steadfastly refused to call the detention of more than 15,000 children in US custody, or the conditions they’re living under, a crisis. But they have stymied most efforts by outsiders to decide for themselves.
“豆莢”裏的孩子們
3月22日，美國阿克西奧斯新聞網站（Axios）首次曝光了這組在美國最大的邊防巡邏隊拘押中心內拍攝的一系列照片，該中心內部雜亂無序。這些照片來自得克薩斯州民主黨眾議員亨利·奎利亞爾。
Axios on Monday first published a series of photos taken inside the largest Border Patrol detention center, a sprawling tent facility in the South Texas city of Donna. The photos were released by Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat from the border city of Laredo.
被美國拘押在邊境的移民兒童 圖源：Axios
Cuellar said the "pods" were meant to house 260 individuals, but that one of them held more than 400 unaccompanied male minors. He said the children needed to be quickly moved from the facility into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
奎利亞爾説這些“豆莢”似的艙裏本該容納260人，但其中一個艙裏已經容納了400多名無人陪伴的未成年男性。他認為應當迅速將這些孩子交給美國衞生與公眾服務部照顧。
奎利亞爾表示，他選擇曝光這些照片的原因之一就是拜登政府拒絕媒體進入該拘押中心。
Cuellar said one reason he released the photos was because the Biden administration had refused media access to the facility in Donna, Texas.
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拒絕媒體探訪引爭議
據美聯社報道，官員們禁止進行監督的非營利律師進入邊防巡邏隊的一座帳篷，那裏拘押了數以千計的兒童和青少年。聯邦機構拒絕或無視媒體數十次提出的進入拘押場所的要求。特朗普政府曾數次批准這種要求。
Officials barred nonprofit lawyers who conduct oversight from entering a Border Patrol tent where thousands of children and teenagers are detained. And federal agencies have refused or ignored dozens of requests from the media for access to detention sites. Such access was granted several times by the administration of President Donald Trump, whose restrictive immigration approach Biden vowed to reverse.
被美國拘押在邊境的移民兒童 圖源：Axios
報道指出，新任總統拜登因為邊境問題上顯而易見的遮掩行徑面臨越來越多的批評，包括來自其他民主黨人的批評。
The new president faces growing criticism for the apparent secrecy at the border, including from fellow Democrats.
據衞報報道，根據美國政策，兒童被拘押的時間不應超過三天。目前，拜登政府拒絕允許媒體訪問此類邊境設施的爭議也越來越多。
來源:中國日報雙語新聞