The brave investigative warriors over at The New York Times have finally cracked the case: Joe Biden completely botched the border. Shocking, right? Next thing you know, they'll be breaking an exposé revealing water is wet.
NYT reporter Christopher Flavelle opens with this Pulitzer-worthy revelation: “In the weeks after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected president, advisers delivered a warning: His approach to immigration could prove disastrous.”
Imagine that — Biden elected in November 2020, disaster predicted immediately, and the NYT heroically swoops in half a decade later to let the American people know. Journalism… just not in real time.
As Daily Caller’s Geoffrey Ingersoll put it, now that the Biden presidency is “dead and buried,” the Times is miraculously free to start “journalism-ing.” How convenient.
The NYT description of the Biden administration makes it sound like a group that simply didn’t feel like doing its job. According to the report, Biden and his closest aides basically treated immigration as a distraction from their favorite priorities — the pandemic theater and their economy-that-definitely-wasn’t-tanking.
But even in their boredom, they found the time to create “new legal pathways” to ease pressure at the border. Translation: Open more doors so the line looks shorter. Like the analogy in the article: “Since making murder legal, the number of illegal killings has dropped to historic lows.” Nailed it.
The Biden administration also cared just enough to import over 400,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, because nothing says “secure border” like bringing in nearly half a million people through your own loopholes.
And let’s not forget Operation Allies Welcome — the same Afghan immigration program that brought in the suspect in the National Guard shooting. That suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, reportedly stopped functioning as a “person, father, and provider” shortly after arrival. Stellar vetting.
Sure, apathy played a role in Biden’s border disaster, but the NYT hints at something worse: intentional negligence. According to the Times, Biden’s team calculated that a “border surge would not be an important issue to most voters,” especially Latinos. And even more revealing: a border surge could be politically beneficial in the long run, considering immigrant voting patterns.
So yes — the NYT finally said the quiet part slightly less quiet. The crisis wasn’t just incompetence. It was strategy.
Meanwhile, the Biden team spent years pretending everything was under control while Americans dealt with the consequences. And only now — when Biden’s political usefulness has expired — does the Times decide it’s safe to tell the truth.
Luckily, the country is finally moving back toward a leadership that takes the border seriously and puts American security first. And that’s a direction worth celebrating.
