Biden's Immigration Debacle Is the Media's, Too

The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting — covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

At the tail end of 2025, the Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence.

Who knew?

The nearly 4,000-word A1 story by Christopher Flavelle, with 14 colleagues contributing additional reporting and research, is certainly well sourced, but none of its sources have just come to light.

It dissects Biden's immigration misdeeds and missteps over each of his four years in office.

Great — but why not do that while the guy's actually in power?

Immigration isn't suddenly an issue today. It's been the biggest domestic story since COVID ended.

And even before COVID, going all the way back to 2016, Donald Trump put immigration at the forefront of presidential politics.

In private, Democrats close to Biden were discussing the crisis all along and knew his agenda would only make it worse.

"Mr. Biden's policy advisers sounded the alarm before he even won the election," the Times acknowledges. "In August of 2020, several aides wrote a memo cautioning Mr. Biden's inner circle that his promises" of lighter immigration enforcement "coupled with pent-up demand from the Trump years and economic hardship from Covid ... could provoke a spike in border crossings."

Democrats were fully aware of what they were getting the country into, and they did it anyway.

Their voters didn't know, however, because the media didn't do the unflinching reporting necessary to inform them — not until just now.

This is the Biden senility story all over again.

Even when the president was visibly failing, liberals in the media dismissed what was right before their eyes.

A friend who was a lonely conservative columnist at another of the nation's major metropolitan newspapers told me the one subject he was explicitly forbidden to write about was Biden's age and infirmity.

This code of silence has backfired spectacularly, saddling the Democrats with not one but two unelectable candidates at the top of their presidential ticket last year, and leaving the left in a state of shock that Americans really did figure out what was happening with immigration and really were mad about it.

Better late than never, though?

"How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration" does teach an important lesson beyond the one about what happens when radical policies go uncriticized by the media and internal criticisms by sane Democrats get ignored.

It also showcases the success of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's strategy of busing the border crisis straight into blue cities.

Democrats throughout the country could ignore the consequences of mass migration as long as the brunt of its impact was taken by Texas and other border states.

Texas is deep red, after all — and more poor migrants could only help turn the state blue over generations, potentially tipping the Electoral College permanently to the Democrats.

Abbott short-circuited that design by putting illegal immigrants on buses and sending them to blue cities throughout the country: Denver, Philadelphia, Washington, New York.

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants poured into Democratic cities that thought the border emergency was somebody else's problem.

It was a winning move:

"Many Biden officials came to view Mr. Abbott's campaign as the point Democrats lost the debate," the Times notes — and quotes Biden's former assistant director for policy at ICE, Deborah Fleischaker, saying, "I don't think we ever recovered."

Now the journalistic profession has to ask whether it can recover from postgame coverage that should have been deeper reporting on these events while they were happening.

Biden's decrepitude and the calamitous consequences of his immigration policies — ultimately for Democrats themselves as well as the country — aren't the only scandals conservative media have been sounding the alarm about for years that haven't received the kind of deep and critical coverage they deserve from all major media, even those that tilt left.

Just imagine The New York Times taking a look this close at climate-change alarmism and discovering the world isn't coming to a fiery end any time soon.

It would be a revolution in media credibility, but for now you can still expect only the news that's fit to print long after liberal follies have become too obvious to ignore.

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Previously:
• 12/02/25: 'Iryna's Law' and the Bad Judges Who Make It Necessary
• 11/26/25: Marjorie Taylor Greene's Exit Is a Warning to Republicans
• 11/19/25: Trump Hasn't Lost Hispanics (Yet)
• 11/11/25: Trump's Tariffs on Trial
• 10/28/25: MAGA Makes Allies Great Again
• 10/21/25: How To Make the AmericaS Great Again
• 10/16/25: Columbus Day Celebrates Our Civilization
• 10/09/25: Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again
• 09/30/25: Assata Shakur and Other Parents of Political Violence
• 09/09/25: Who's Accountable for Autopen Pardons?
• 09/02/25: Gender dysphoria is a mental-illness, NOT an all-encompassing delusion
• 08/26/25: Trump's Industrial Policy Is Realism, Not Socialism
• 08/19/25: Is Gavin Newsom the Dems' Answer to Trump?
• 08/12/25: Just Say No to More Marijuana
• 08/05/25: Will the GOP Make Libs Generous Again?
• 07/30/25: Trump's Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World)
• 07/22/25: Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert?
• 07/08/25: A Big Beautiful Test of GOP Principles and Discipline
• 07/01/25: Dems Need Populism, But Not Zohran's Sort
• 06/25/25: Secure Borders Win Wars Like This One
• 06/18/25: WEIRD Protesters Should Stay Home
• 06/17/25: WEIRD Protesters Should Stay Home
• 06/04/25: State that's long eluded GOP turns toward Trump
• 05/21/24: Trump's Sun Belt Hopes and Rust Belt Needs
• 05/14/24: What Trump Sees in Doug Burgum
• 05/07/24: The Vietnam Era Never Ended for Biden's Party
• 05/06/24: Nationalists of the World, Unite?
• 04/25/24: Foreign Policy Splits
• 04/16/24: How pro-lifers stand to lose everything gained in overturning Roe
• 04/02/24: PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr.
• 04/02/24: Who Wants to Be House Speaker?
• 03/26/24: Trump Hunts for a VP Close to Home
• 03/19/24: Princess Kate and Democracy's Discontents
• 03/12/24: Can Biden Buy the Voters?
• 03/05/24: Veepstakes Give Trump an Edge
• 02/20/24: Do Americans Trust Either Party?
• 02/13/24: Vladimir Putin -- A Passive Aggressor
• 01/23/24: Will 'Lawfare' Take Trump Off the Ballot?
• 01/16/24: Will Africa Save America?
• 01/09/24:'The Sopranos' at 25: A new world tragedy
• 01/02/24: Trump, Biden and a Fight for the Heart
• 12/12/23: What Happened to Ron DeSantis?
• 12/12/23: Biden Looks Doomed -- But Is He?
• 12/05/23: A Test for Trump and His Rivals
• 11/21/23: When Inequality Is Fatal for Men
• 11/14/23: Nevermind, The Battle's Over
• 11/07/23: War in the Dem Party -- and at the Opera
• 10/24/23: Israel's Lesson for 2024: A Lib Crackup
• 10/17/23: Libs' Dilemma: Immigration or Israel?
• 10/10/23: Why Bidenflation Defines Bidenomics
• 10/03/23: Will Gavin Newsom Copy Trump?
• 09/26/23: Biden's a Loser -- but Dems Can't Ditch Him
• 09/19/23: Do Sex Scandals Matter?
• 09/12/23: Cornel West Spells Doom for Biden
• 09/05/23: What Trump Does for Democracy
• 08/2/23: Ramaswamy: A Trump Versus Trump?
• 08/22/23: Take 'Rich Men North of Richmond' Seriously
• 08/16/23: How America Kills Its Own
• 08/08/23: The Biden Pardon That Can Spare America
• 08/01/23: Harding, a consevative for the ages
• 07/25/23: Demography Destiny, for Us and China
• 07/18/23: The Frontrunner Who Looks Like a Loser Is Biden
• 07/11/23: Britain's Bad Example for American Conservatives
• 07/05/23: Could We Still Win a Revolutionary War?
• 06/27/23: Civilizations Clash -- in Ukraine and at Home
• 06/20/23: China Comes for the Caribbean
• 06/13/23: Fertility, Family and Bio-Socialism
• 06/06/23: From American Dream to Orwell's Nightmare
• 05/23/23: Ukraine war is an existential struggle --- for the West
• 05/23/23: Learn the Right Midterm Lessons -- or Lose in 2024
• 05/16/23: Feinstein Today Is Biden Tomorrow
• 05/09/23: Trump, DeSantis and Political Courtship
• 05/02/23: RFK Jr.'s Threat to Biden
• 04/25/23: Biden's Lost Generation
• 04/25/23: Who's In Charge of Clarence Thomas?
• 04/11/23: Beyond AI, Our Cyborg Future
• 04/04/23: 2024: 3 Leaders, 1 Way to Win
• 03/28/23: Climate Science Makes a Bad Religion
• 03/21/23: All the Conspiracy That's Fit to Print