News flash: The Biden administration was responsible for the border crisis.
Of course, this isn’t news — except to readers of the New York Times. It took the sleuthing of fully 15 New York Times reporters to belatedly uncover this curious fact, describing for their no doubt bewildered readers “How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration.”
What’s next — Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab? Russia didn’t manipulate the 2016 election?
My sarcasm is especially warranted because Todd Bensman, formerly on my staff and now at DHS, published a whole book on this nearly two years ago, whose title would have made a better headline for the Times story: Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.
As for the Times story itself, one thing that jumps out is the absence of the words “Alejandro Mayorkas,” Biden’s DHS secretary who was impeached precisely for his role in causing the border crisis. This leads me to suspect that he may have been one of the main sources for the tick-tock of administration deliberations, in a vain attempt to exonerate himself in the eyes of his fellows for his central role in sending Trump back to the White House.
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