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How to Create a Crisis: the NYT's irresponsible coverage of Trump's statements on the "border crisis"
Most importantly, the Times appears to be accepting the Trump administration's framing of how the asylum process should work:
The Times article goes on to talk about how the immigrants are dirty and have diseases. I'm not joking.
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But if the idea that there is a “border security crisis” is accepted, opposition to new Border Security Measures becomes more difficult to justify. Which is why it’s frustrating to find the New York Times’ news reporters pushing the false idea that there is a terrible unprecedented border security calamity and that hordes of disease-spreading migrants are pouring into our country at unsustainable rates.
The Times released a long report today entitled The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point, with the subtitle: For years, there have been warnings that America’s immigration system was going to fail. That time may be now. The thrust of the article is that there are simply too many migrants trying to come into the United States, and that there is a strain on our institutions and our capacity to police the border. It does not say explicitly that Something Must Be Done, but if you accept the article’s conclusions you will probably want Something to be done.
The Times released a long report today entitled The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point, with the subtitle: For years, there have been warnings that America’s immigration system was going to fail. That time may be now. The thrust of the article is that there are simply too many migrants trying to come into the United States, and that there is a strain on our institutions and our capacity to police the border. It does not say explicitly that Something Must Be Done, but if you accept the article’s conclusions you will probably want Something to be done.
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This is not, however, something completely new. Here, from the Times’ own previous reporting, are the monthly numbers from prior years:
As you can see, not only are sudden spikes a regular occurrence, but the number of monthly apprehensions has gone well over 200,000 before. (Back when the Border Patrol had about half the staff and budget it does now.) The only reason the current number seems high is that crossings in the last few years have been so low.
As you can see, not only are sudden spikes a regular occurrence, but the number of monthly apprehensions has gone well over 200,000 before. (Back when the Border Patrol had about half the staff and budget it does now.) The only reason the current number seems high is that crossings in the last few years have been so low.
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I would hope that by now journalists would have finally learned that all-important lesson: “What anonymous government officials say” is not synonymous with “what the truth about a thing actually is.” Trump administration officials are not the ideal people to rely on for your supporting evidence that the system is overburdened.
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The Times report suggests that high recent numbers of crossings “have overwhelmed a system unable to detain, care for and quickly decide the fate of tens of thousands of people who claim to be fleeing for their lives.” These are asylum-seekers. They should be released into the country, just as if you flew to London and filed to receive asylum status, you should not be kept in the airport for six months but should be allowed to go find a hotel. “Unable to detain and care for” is a problem that need not exist if asylum-seekers are treated the way we expect to be treated ourselves on foreign travel. The Times says “families are often simply released” as if it’s a bad thing. Again, imagine how absurd this would sound if you or I went to Canada: While they were awaiting a judgment from the Canadian courts, they were simply allowed to pass freely through Canada and even stay in it. That’s what a sane country would do! Keeping people in prison while you decide their immigration status is irrational and inhumane!
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