CNN quietly admitted the Biden administration is effectively continuing the same minor detention policies under Obama and Trump. It didn’t stop mainstream media from blaming anyone other than the Biden administration for the border crisis they caused and refused to admit.
Summary
The Biden administration announced FEMA will be deployed for the next 3 months to help immigration officials process and house the flood of children arriving at the border illegally.
- Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are expecting as many as 13,000 children in May alone.
- The number of children being detained crossing the border is greatly exceeding the number of children the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs facilities specifically for minors, can release to parents or sponsors.
- As the crisis grows, Democrats on Capitol Hill are defending Biden, despite the surge at the border creating LITERALLY the exact same detention situation they decried as racist and inhumane under President Trump.
- As the Biden administration is struggling to meet the challenge at the border, the options moving forward are politically difficult for him and the Democratic Party.
- The Washington Post framed their reporting with Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott being obstinate to any proposals from the Biden administration.
- ABC News used a classic mainstream media tactic: making the Republican response to a problem the story rather than the problem itself.
- An opinion piece on CNN.com acknowledged the challenges Biden faces, but obfuscated any responsibility by arguing Obama and Biden had similar challenges and that, hey, at least Biden is trying.
- Townhall.com’s Katie Pavlich noted the news of FEMA’s enlistment comes after Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is violating federal law by holding minors in CBP facilities and that the White House still refuses to acknowledge the situation as a crisis.
- NBC News crossed the partisan divide by printing an opinion column from Washington Examiner’s political editor Jim Antle, who argues Biden knew or should have known his campaign rhetoric and immigration orders would create a surge of migrants at the border, faulting him for not preparing for it.
- The Daily Mail sensationalized their headline with data not seen in other coverage, saying one complex for holding those detained crossing the border are at seven times capacity and blasts Biden for not admitting the breadth of the situation.
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