The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week disinvited BuzzFeed News immigration reporter Hamed Aleaziz from a tour of the border, CNN's Reliable Sources reported Wednesday.

The outlet obtained an email from BuzzFeed News news director Tom Namako to DHS spokesperson Andrew Meehan that said Aleaziz was "notified that he would be excluded from the tour" on Monday.

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Namako wrote to Meehan to "protest the treatment of our reporter Hamed Aleaziz, one of the most authoritative, knowledgeable, and fairest immigration reporters in the country, by your agency," according to the email, which was reviewed by The Hill.

He said that Aleaziz was invited on the media tour with acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and that DHS even requested his personal information for "security clearance purposes."

Namako also noted that Meehan called Aleaziz a "fair reporter" and "repeatedly asked that he come see the border with US immigration authorities" when the DHS spokesperson visited BuzzFeed's offices in February.

DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the reported disinvitation.

BuzzFeed News declined to comment further on the situation. The Hill has reached out to Aleaziz for comment.

The DHS has had a fraught relationship with the press recently, driven at least in part by internal disarray in the agency's media team. Katharine Gorka lasted just two months as Customs and Border Protection press secretary, and Meehan is set to leave sometime this month.