When Corrupt Media Bother To Talk About The Border Crisis At All, They Go Full Pinocchio

Since Joe Biden’s first days in office, there has been an existential crisis raging at our country’s southern border.

This crisis is apparent to anyone willing to remove their political blinders and observe the reality on the ground. Sadly, though, most of the political establishment in Washington, the coastal elites in their gated communities, and the open-borders bureaucracy have shown they are unwilling to do just that. They would, however, prefer to remain ignorant. As would the corporate media.

Some journalists have done exemplary work covering the border crisis for months — Bill Melugin and Griff Jenkins of Fox News, Townhall’s Julio Rosas, Jennie Taer of The Daily Caller, NewsNation’s Ali Bradley, and Newsmax’s Jaeson Jones all come to mind.

But for the most part, the media have not only largely ignored the border crisis but have actively participated in the Democrats’ campaign to mislead and deceive Americans about the scope, scale, and causes of the crisis. 

I experienced this deception firsthand last week. The Heritage Foundation, where I serve as a visiting fellow, was contacted by two reporters from The Arizona Republic — Rafael Carranza and Daniel Gonzalez — who wanted to speak with someone about the number of illegal aliens who have entered the United States since Biden took office. I agreed to the interview, and despite encountering fierce resistance to the case I made, I laid out in great detail the facts about the number and quality of people who have entered this country under Biden.

In the end, The Arizona Republic published a piece that actively misleads its readers. Carranza, whose name appeared on the byline, failed to accurately report the number of individuals who have improperly entered the country, under-counting the correct number by more than half a million.

Even more egregiously, he failed to mention the massive number of got-aways who have illegally crossed into our country and never get apprehended by Border Patrol.

Known got-aways, or those whom Border Patrol know come across the border because they’re caught on cameras, sensors, or even seen by agents, have totaled more than 1 million since Biden assumed office. And that number continues to grow as more and more agents are pulled off the frontline.

Border Patrol also knows that every month, a certain number of illegal aliens slip across the border and are not further tracked. As someone who used to oversee the Border Patrol, I can tell you this number can be up to twice as many as the known got-aways. This means there is very likely another 1-2 million unaccounted-for illegal migrants who could have easily entered the country under the Biden administration. 

Carranza included none of these figures and omitted others I gave. In doing so, he reported a conclusion about the number of improper border crossings that was inaccurate and misleading. The rest of his piece contained further attempts to downplay the border crisis and make excuses for why it’s occurring. 

He even went so far as to blame the historic number of apprehensions

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