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From 'no crisis' to 'breaking point': Mainstream media changes its tune on border crisis amid illegal immigration surge

Months after repeatedly dismissing and mocking President Trump’s claim of a national emergency at the Southern U.S. border, the mainstream media is grappling with reality, with no less than The New York Times declaring the border crisis at “breaking point.”

Yet as recently as February, a New York Times fact-checker of Trump's State of the Union speech tweeted: “President Trump described illegal border crossings as a 'urgent national crisis.' This is false."

The Washington Post’s editorial board said “there is no crisis” at the border and called Trump’s national emergency declaration “untethered from truth and reality” and a “make-believe emergency.”

"Mr. Trump’s technique is to spin fiction as fact, secure in the knowledge that minds will reel as fact-checkers labor to deconstruct his ziggurat of falsehoods. So let’s stick to one big, basic truth: There is no crisis at the southern border," the editorial said.

"So let’s stick to one big, basic truth: There is no crisis at the southern border."

— Washington Post's editorial board
CNN’s Anderson Cooper, meanwhile, echoed many other left-wing voices on social media and implied that the fact the president went to spend his weekend away from the White House after declaring the emergency was evidence that there was no urgent problem at the border.

Fast forward, the same media outlets are now scrambling to accurately portray the border crisis, no longer fearing to quote top officials and their data, and declare that the southern border is at a “breaking point” amid a surge in the number of illegal immigrant crossings.

“The U.S. Immigration System May Have Reached a Breaking Point,” a New York Times story read Wednesday, detailing the unprecedented problems at the border.

“It was never like this before,” the article states. “The migrants come now in the middle of the night or in the bright light of day. Men and women arrive by the hundreds, caked with dirt, with teens and toddlers in tow.”

The story claims that a “breaking point” has been reached in America’s immigration system, which is no longer able to cope with the unseen levels of illegal immigration.


“The country is now unable to provide either the necessary humanitarian relief for desperate migrants or even basic controls on the number and nature of who is entering the United States,” the story notes.

— The New York Times


This is a follow-up to another story in the Times from last month titled “Border at ‘Breaking Point’ as More Than 76,000 Unauthorized Migrants Cross in a Month” that cited the data that over 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, the 11-year-high that put a strain on the border patrol resources.

Yet the report still accused Trump of using the data to justify the implementation of strict immigration controls, including building the border wall.

The Post caught up with the Times' first report, admitting the crisis at the border only about three weeks later, printing an article titled “U.S. has hit ‘breaking point’ at border amid immigration surge, Customs and Border Protection chief says.”

The media’s starkly different portrayal of the southern border comes amid Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch testimony before Congress earlier this week, claiming that a caravan-size influx of migrants is flooding across the border each week in just a single sector.

The official noted that the border patrol has apprehended more families illegally crossing the border in the first five months of fiscal 2019 than during all of fiscal 2018. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended more than 76,000 migrants across the border in February and said it was on track to apprehend more than 100,000 in March.

Trump also floated the possibility of sending additional military troops to the southern border as the border patrol is lacking resources to combat the surge.

“I'm going to have to call up more military,” Trump said on Wednesday in Texas.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/mainstream-media-changes-border-crisis-illegal-immigration

Truth becomes mainstream again.

Trump inherited the lowest incoming immigration in decades with a net of around zero. He bumbles about jerking his bigoted bases chain with 'the wall', then goes hard at mexico and other countries, he locks up and separates families, overwhelms the system and facilities, avoids accountability for kidnapping kids, then cuts off aid, and here you are celebrating that he finally created a crisis at the border.

Good Job! You're a trumpian rube.

end the drug war and solve the problem....

If our stupid, lazy, crazy Congress would start caring more about America than chasing Trump, Trump would have this fixed in a week!

Wonder if any of Trump's policies and directives created the breaking point ..... rhetorical question.

Well no because congress are a bunch of good for nothing bums!

you had complete control of government for 2 years and didnt do a damn thing with it.

and did we reelect those boobs? No.

we?

you did. the majority didn't.

All of congress is the problem, doesn't matter if they have an R or a D by their name.

You have learned nothing since the silent majority elected Trump then stayed home for the Congressional vote.

lol yea ok. the ass kicking you got in 2018 is no "we stayed home".

wasn't saying that in 2018 though.

You learn nothing and remember less.

I said the House would fall but we would keep the Senate ahead of the election. Clem said he would save that post and show it to me after the Great Blue Wave that turned out to be a fart bubble in the tub. Guess he forgot.

it was a pretty big wave.

and you was parroting nonsense about the house staying trump. you took the L.

youll probably take the L in 2020.

Nonsense.

Biggest wave election in like 40 years.

Self summary?

Truth according to Fox News🤪

You mean like the GOP controlled congress between 2016 and 2018? You guys crack me up. You controlled the House, the Senate and the White House for those two years and couldn't do jack to help the problem. A year later you try to blame the Democrats for doing exactly what your own party was doing.

That is the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard you spout out.

From January 2017 to December 2018, Republicans held a majority in the house and the senate. And in that time, Immigration did indeed get worse...

So don't sit there and lie about it.. Trump had two years to fix the problem of immigration, healthcare and other issues and all he really did is mess up relations with our allies, screw the middle class with Tax cuts for the wealthy and create an atmosphere of Bullying and lies..

Grow up 40,,, you are backing a horse that wants to destroy America....

So, splain sumpin..

We had lax border security, we had sanctuary cities acting with autonomy, we had a growing economy, and a new healthcare for all plan... but we had net zero immigration

Trump gets into office, we have families separated at the border, tariffs, raids and deportations, rampant racism against black and brown people, threats to repeal the healthcare, the same economy... and suddenly hundreds of thousands in Central America say, "Yea, now is the time to go up there."

How does that work?

Hard to deny that fact.

screw fox news.

It's because conditions have worsened in the countries they come from making them feel forced to flee. It really has nothing to do with who is president.

I do however feel the comment about border security being lax under Obama is rhetoric. I mean let's face it, all of the rhetoric about sending troops to the border is nothing more than a con job as well. They have no power to apprehend illegals or enforce immigration laws. It's just a dog and pony show.

Screw being ignorant. It isn't FOX, its the NYTimes and Washington Post changing their reporting.

Yeah, well, no.

The right is screaming about the crisis being illegal immigrants. The left is screaming it's a humanitarian crises that's been created by Trump.

They're not the same thing.

As usual I do not agree with either side and both of those claims are hyperbole.

I don't make the news, I just report it.

J/C

So I see how many on this board who have stated over and over there was no crisis, are now trying to say their is...……...

Try some context.

Don't criticize them as they have credentials!
-Collusion is real.
-Trump is a Russian.
-Putin runs our elections.
-Illegals are only here to shop.

'crisis.'

An 'invasion of foreign enemies' would indeed be a crisis.

Fugitives from narcoviolence, corrupt government and rampant gang warfare massing in desperation at our border is also indeed- a crisis.

In this discussion, framing is everything.

Sounds like a case to immigrate from the U.S.

well first you have to decide if you are going to believe Trump or not. Recently, this week in fact, he said that family seperation happened under Obama and HE was the one that stopped it.... Those were his words LOL

Also, he and FOX were telling the world that all these migrants were coming and that they were ISIS and had diseases and were murderers and thieves.. Maybe they were, but how would he know that?

Now he wants to dump all the illegals into Sanctuary cities to teach the Dems a lesson.... What kind of arse does that.

wait...what?

If illegals are a bonus to the society and economy as the left states - why wouldn't they want them? seems like your made that the illegals would have to go to sanctuary cities, or am I reading that wrong?

A manufactured humanitarian crisis created by Trump that didn't exist before.

Actually, the crisis has been manufactured by whoever is organizing the caravans, or do you really believe several thousand people all decide to start walking north one day.

Is Soros your new boogeyman after "no-go" zones in UK turned out to be bunk after repeated asking for proof?

Yeah, I am not making that up..That's what he wants to do and to do it to teach the Dems a lesson.

But I like how quickly you jump to his defense and find a way to justify the move.

FYI, I'm sure the sanctuary cities will take them. But his reasoning for doing it is typical Trump. Such a sack of crap.