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TOP NEWS | Border Authorities Block Media View of Illegal Migrants, Twitter’s New CEO, Daniel Penny Surrenders to Police | May 12

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:  As reporters at the border in El Paso, Texas, sought to document the illegal immigrants’ entrance into the U.S. Border Patrol authorities positioned buses so that the media could not properly see or film the scene. Mary Margaret’s reporting: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/12/border-patrol-blocks-media-documenting-illegal-immigrant-entry-us/ Twitter has a new CEO.  The Congressional Budget office says the U.S. could default on its debt in the “first two weeks of June.”  Daniel Penny, the man accused of choking a homeless man on the New York City subway has surrendered to police.  The Washington Post appears to have written an article highlighting that ‘Zuckbucks’ were used to influence the 2020 election.  Relevant Links Colorado Wants to Force Her To Create LGBTQ Wedding Websites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfk1q-EXNDE  Listen to other podcasts from The Daily Signal: https://www.dailysignal.com/podcasts/ Get daily conservative news you can trust from our Morning Bell newsletter: DailySignal.com/morningbellsubscription   Listen to more Heritage podcasts: https://www.heritage.org/podcasts Sign up for The Agenda newsletter — the lowdown on top issues conservatives need to know about each week: https://www.heritage.org/agenda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Samantha Sherris and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Friday, May 12th.

0:07.6

Here are today's headlines.

0:21.6

At midnight on Thursday evening, the pandemic error rule allowing authorities to expel illegal

0:27.2

immigrants at the southern border expired.

0:30.2

Our colleague Mary Margaret Olehann, who is on the ground in El Paso, Texas covering

0:34.6

the border crisis, reports that a large group of migrants waited outside Gate 42 in El Paso

0:41.2

to enter the United States from Mexico.

0:44.4

As reporters at the border in El Paso sought to document the illegal immigrants' entrance

0:49.4

into the U.S., border patrol authorities positioned buses so that the media could not properly

0:55.4

see or film the scene.

0:57.9

A woman reportedly from U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner's office told reporters

1:03.1

of the migrants we are trying to protect their privacy.

1:07.2

The Daily Signal's drone footage shows the illegal immigrants crossing through the gate

1:11.6

and getting onto buses.

1:13.3

In the early hours of Friday morning, three buses were filled with migrants and then departed.

1:18.2

These illegal immigrants will be taken to processing facilities the Daily Signal was told.

1:23.3

Times and Border Protection did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

1:27.4

Border Patrol previously told the Daily Signal that the El Paso sector has two processing

1:31.7

centers, each set up with a capacity to house about a thousand people and that officials

1:37.3

intend to set up a third center by the end of June.

1:40.4

We will include a link to Mary Margaret's full story in today's show notes.

1:44.8

Elon Musk announced Friday that Linda Yaccarino will take his place.

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