Border agency says deleted press release on suspected terrorist arrests was ‘not properly reviewed’

Published April 7, 2021 2:10pm ET



Customs and Border Protection confirmed it removed a press release about the arrests of two Yemeni men crossing the border who were on the government’s terror watch list from its website, a deletion that Republicans said was a failure of transparency by the Biden administration.

The “news release in question was not properly reviewed and contained certain disclosure and policy information related to national security that required CBP to remove it from our website,” a CBP spokesman told the Washington Examiner.

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