Great work here revealing something truly terrible: https://t.co/rc5v7daV0m
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 24, 2021
"have Biden administration policies caused a crisis at the southern border? Evidence suggests not…This year looks like the usual seasonal increase plus migrants who would have come last year, but could not." https://t.co/SA7quanG2X
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) March 24, 2021
Migrants are not overrunning U.S. border towns, despite the political rhetoric — pa que sepan. https://t.co/57Hb01riqA
— Arelis R. Hernández (@arelisrhdz) March 22, 2021
Yes, it turns out that actually trying to solve hard problems is…hard! Any depiction of this that doesn't wrestle with whether Trump's policies were worse in humanitarian and rule-of-law terms is adopting the GOP frame that cruelty-as-deterrence is good: https://t.co/aWFoFmqWgf https://t.co/wpQOPuE0Hc
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 22, 2021
"As President Joe Biden tries to undo the damage that his predecessor did to America’s immigration system, three problems are getting in the way," @juliettekayyem wrote in February. https://t.co/hjgQXFQkeU
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 22, 2021
Why is @mehdirhasan the first journalist to show this graph?
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) March 22, 2021
The surge at the border has been taking place for nine months. A 690% increase in unaccompanied minors in Trump’s last year. You can get the data straight from CBP’s website. pic.twitter.com/QODyBU8C2t
In the last nine months of Trump’s presidency there was a 690% increase in unaccompanied minors encountered by CBP.
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) March 21, 2021
I wrote about media coverage of the border "crisis" https://t.co/S2gc7sD0lJ
— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) March 24, 2021
Sad! 