"We looked at data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection to see whether there’s a “crisis” — or even a “surge,” as many news
outlets have characterized it. We analyzed monthly CBP data from 2012
to now and found no crisis or surge that can be attributed to Biden
administration policies. Rather, the current increase in apprehensions
fits a predictable pattern of seasonal changes in undocumented
immigration combined with a backlog of demand because of 2020’s coronavirus border closure." -- Tom K. Wong, Gabriel De Roche and Jesus Rojas Venzor, in yesterday's (wait for it) Washington Post. This could be somewhat embarrassing, because the Post's crack team of Republican press release stenographers (looking at you, Ashley Parker, Nick Miroff, Sean Sullivan and Tyler Pager!) and others in the media have been relentlessly flogging the "CRISIS AT THE BORDER" narrative, dutifully following in the footsteps goosesteps of Fox "News." (But, when your traffic is down dramatically, you keep hitting the panic button labeled "major scandal here!!")
It's going to be a long couple of years.
BONUS: The Post's own media observer Margaret Sullivan sees what's already been developing in just the first 60 days of the Biden Administration and says it's the White House press corps that's going to be tested at Biden's first press conference tomorrow.
