Analysis There's no migrant 'surge' at the U.S. southern border. Here's the data. ...

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Analysis | There’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border. Here’s the data. https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/23/theres-no-migrant-surge-us-southern-border-heres-data/?tid=ss_tw
During fiscal year 2019, under the #Trump administration, total apprehensions increased 31 percent during the same period, a bigger jump than we’re seeing now.

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Night and day: The Washington Post offers two totally different stories on the U.S.-Mexico border


https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/night-and-day-washington-post-offers-two-totally-different-stories-us-mexico-border

Depending on what day it is, the Post says it’s either a “crisis” that Biden has “failed” to deal with — or a regular cyclical occurrence

Written by Eric Kleefeld

Published 03/23/21 4:35 PM EDT


The Washington Post ran an article on Saturday that bluntly pinned a supposed “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border on the Biden administration. But now, three days later, the Post is running another piece that largely dismantles that entire narrative — with crucial details that the prior article had only just hinted at.

In its March 20 article, the Post details how “the new president began tearing down some of the guardrails” around immigration policy after his inauguration, cautioning: “Now, the Biden administration is scrambling to control the biggest surge in 20 years.” But a March 23 analysis actually found that “there’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border,” explaining that the situation “isn’t a surge or crisis, but a predictable seasonal shift.”

As Media Matters’ Matt Gertz explained yesterday: “Reporters who devote substantial attention to a story and describe it as a ‘crisis’ are using their agenda-setting power, priming their audience to treat it as one. … In this case, the ‘crisis’ tone plays into weeks of right-wing demagoguing of the border issue.”

Furthermore, as Washington Post opinion columnist Greg Sargent has explained, this framing also plays into right-wing media narratives and the terms of Republican policy goals, in which the number of migrants who can apply for asylum would be kept as low as possible — even if this results in a further “humanitarian catastrophe outside our borders for the migrants themselves,” and the total disregard of established U.S. law on the asylum process.


The cyclical analysis: This has happened before — plus “pent-up demand” after COVID-19....................................................................

[LymphocyteLover]

1. I've seen a clarification where they are saying there's a record surge in unaccompanied minors

not so much the total numbers but more kids coming than before

[uponit7771]

7. Dem messaging should focus on the children then, work the refs (M$M) and make sure they're being

... accurate.

The dem messaging / feedback infrastructure is broke

[LymphocyteLover]

10. Yes, truly

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Right wing views always get an airing in the press, disguised as fact

Why am I not surprised?

[Cosmocat]

3. Its fucking exhausting, this is 100%

the media giving in to conservative pressure to "level the playing field" and knock JB down a peg or two.

[IronLionZion]

5. They must feel they have to air "both sides"

even if the conservative side is complete lies

[bucolic_frolic]

6. I think it's more about coercion and access

Play ball or you're ignored. But I've been wrong before.

[uponit7771]

4. K&R, M$M focus's on MAGA Talking points why 250 laws on books constrict voting of Americans ...

... cause the MAGA Talking points get ratings from who!?

[Jilly_in_VA]

8. Of course not

It's a media-manufactured "crisis" because they must always have one, especially if a president is doing well.

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. I live sixty miles from the Mexico border and teach on the Tohono o'Odham Nation

Not only have border patrol vehicles racing through the streets (driving 70 in areas marked for 30-40 where children play), not only have they increased using private property of Tohono o'Odham tribal members to do their jobs (leaving garbage and vehicle destruction behind for the owners to deal with), but according to my students and their parents on "The Nation," there haven't been any increase of people walking through it.

But there has been a massive increase of tribal members being stopped and harassed by Border Patrol and ICE because Tohono o'Odham do not recognize the border through their lands (due to the fact the Nation is on both sides of the border) and because they have last names like Gomez, Antone, Pablo, etc.

So, we are being protected by the Border Patrol from native Americans who have more right to the land than most Americans do. Another instance where ***** let law enforcement run white during his four year reign of error because he wanted to show what a hard case he could be.

But, just like the plight of legal immigrants getting harassed and denied, the plight of the Tohono o'Odham means nothing to the media and most Americans don't even know, and less care.

The border patrol and CBP need serious reform and overhaul.

[progressoid]

12. Thanks for the first hand report.

And thanks for teaching our children!

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. I'm also running for Arizona House next year.

[Ford_Prefect]

11. The Post was fed this crap and didn't bother to research or even fact check it.

I recall similar behavior during both gulf wars and the recent 4 year unpleasantness. The MSM paper wants to curry favor with someone and prints what is essentially a press release. RW rumor mills are fed this way.

Once more the MSM takes the easy way out to a clickbait headline. Either the writer is lazy or had an agenda to push. IMO we need to deluge the post with complaints about this practice. It creates a false equivalency between RW propaganda and certifiable fact, which I suspect is actually the goal.