{"id":546729,"date":"2021-05-31T09:06:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=546729"},"modified":"2021-05-31T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T13:06:23","slug":"congressman-democrats-rely-on-the-media-to-cover-up-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-democrats-rely-on-the-media-to-cover-up-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman: Democrats Rely On The Media To Cover Up Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressman-democrats-rely-on-the-media-to-cover-up-border-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=546729&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kamala-Harris.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A sitting U.S. congressman says the Democratic Party is \u201crelying\u201d on the legacy media not to report on the exploding human rights catastrophe at the U.S. border with Mexico, an issue that undermines President Joe Biden\u2019s standing with voters more than any other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats think that we\u2019re going to stop talking about this, because they\u2019re going to get the press to stop talking about it, and that\u2019s really what\u2019s going on right now,\u201d Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) told Fox News this weekend. \u201cThey\u2019re relying on the mainstream media to not talk about it any more, and they think if they don\u2019t talk about it, it will go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The administration has taken pains to fend off the issue, branding the crisis as merely a \u201cchallenge,\u201d bottling up the release of photos or videos from inside U.S. detention facilities, and avoiding anything that would generate press coverage of this lingering sore spot.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris, whom President Biden has named to oversee the immigration crisis, has refused to visit the area two months after taking ownership of the issue portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Jackson said the vice president has stayed away from the Rio Grande \u201cbecause the border is a disaster and she doesn\u2019t want to be associated with it, either. From day one, she wants nothing to do with the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither, apparently, do the media. After years of focusing on \u201ckids in cages,\u201d the legacy media have suddenly turned a blind eye to historic surges in illegal immigration to the United States, and the Border Patrol\/Homeland Security response to them \u2014 even though&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalism.org\/2021\/04\/28\/at-100-day-mark-coverage-of-biden-has-been-slightly-more-negative-than-positive-varied-greatly-by-outlet-type\/\">43% of Americans<\/a> told the Pew Research Center the media have not spent enough time covering immigration.<\/p>\n<p>A whopping 68% of Americans \u2014 including 39% of Democrats \u2014 say the Biden-Harris administration is doing a \u201cvery\u201d or \u201csomewhat bad\u201d job handling illegal immigration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2021\/05\/03\/most-americans-are-critical-of-governments-handling-of-situation-at-u-s-mexico-border\/\">according<\/a> to Pew.<\/p>\n<p>But the PR disaster is the least dangerous one on the border.<\/p>\n<p>April saw more illegal immigrants entering the United States through the Southern border than any time in the last <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/11\/april-saw-most-illegal-immigrants-stopped-at-border-in-21-years-cbp\/\">21 years<\/a>. \u201cIn all, CBP encountered 178,622 people attempting to enter the United States, a three percent increase from March, and the most encounters in a single month since April of 2000, when 182,613 illegal immigrants were apprehended,\u201d reported the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re overwhelmed,\u201d says the Texas congressman. \u201cWe have 170,000 that we know crossed the border,\u201d he continued. \u201cMarch was a record year, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jackson highlighted the looming consequences of uncontrolled, illegal immigration. \u201cThis is a huge burden for our country economically. It\u2019s going to be a health care crisis for us, it\u2019s going to be a criminal and terrorism crisis for us. \u2026 We have record numbers of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl crossing the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Customs and Border Protection&nbsp;agents have already seized <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/fentanyl-seized-cbp-2021-2020\/story?id=77744071\">6,494 pounds<\/a> of fentanyl at the Southern border in the first four months of 2021 \u2014 more than 4,776 pounds found in all of 2020. Border agents have found 105,032 pounds of methamphetamine in 2021, compared to a little more than 177,000 pounds last year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the undeniable severity of the problem, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jen-psaki-says-americans-only-think-theres-a-border-crisis-because-of-the-media\">argued<\/a> that \u201ca big driver\u201d of those negative impressions is certain, unspecified \u201ccomponents of social media and media these days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet border Democrats including Senators Kyrsten Sinema, Mark Kelly and Rep. Henry Cuellar have called the unfolding immigration issue a \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jackson agreed that instead of counting on a media blackout until things get better (or the administration ends), Harris needs to be part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe needs to get down there and they need to stop this,\u201d Jackson added.<\/p>\n<p>This week Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tx-congressman-challenges-kamala-harris-to-debate-on-border-issues-after-she-fails-to-address-crisis\">challenged<\/a> Biden or Harris to a public debate on the issue of border enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Even if they take Roy up on his offer, don\u2019t count on the media to cover it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sitting U.S. congressman says the Democratic Party is \u201crelying\u201d on the legacy media not to report on the exploding human rights catastrophe at the U.S. border with Mexico, an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313579,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kamala-Harris.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Congressman: Democrats Rely On The Media To Cover Up Border Crisis","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kamala-Harris.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Congressman: Democrats Rely On The Media To Cover Up Border Crisis","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}