Correction, Please!
Immigration System Hits Breaking Point, Goes Beyond
Item: While many were relieved to learn on June 7 that a deal about illegal immigration had been reached between the Trump administration and Mexico, thus suspending threatened tariffs, the Washington Post emphasized that the agreement, which included the expansion of the Migrant Protection Protocols — “which allows the United States to return Central American migrants to Mexico while they await the adjudication of their asylum hearings in U.S. immigration court”—– might result in “tens of thousands of [illegal] migrants waiting in limbo in potentially unsafe conditions in Mexico.”
Item: Seeking to minimize the achievements of the Trump administration’s immigration negotiations with Mexico, the New York Times for June 9, in the first paragraph of its leading front-page story, stressed that the deal that had been announced “with great fanfare … consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in previous discussions.” (Much further down, on page 11, that article admitted that Mexico’s promise to deploy troops to its southern border was indeed “larger” than previously pledged and that the timing of the Migrant Protection Protocols had been “accelerate[d].”) So, apparently, everything was the same except for the things that changed — to the advantage of the United States.
Item: The Washington Post in the front page of its June 6 edition, accompanied by a color photo of migrant youths playing soccer in a federal facility in Florida, bemoaned that the Trump administration was considering cutting such recreation programs. (If you read very closely, down into the piece, you might discover that these centers are overwhelmed with the numbers of the illegals and short of the emergency funding that had been sought by the administration, but not supplied by Congress.)
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