For its story on an “immigration surge” in the United States, the Times looked at data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Congressional Budget Office, and concluded that “surge” under President Biden was the largest in U.S. history.
"And in other news, The New York Times reports that the sun rose in the east this morning,” Ira Mehlman, of Federation for American Immigration Reform, says of the story.
Looking at both legal immigrants and illegal immigrants, the Times said net migration likely exceeded 8 million people during Biden’s four years.
Other sources have put that number in double digits considering the U.S. Border Patrol recorded 10.6 million encounters with illegal aliens since 2020. That number doesn’t include the number of “gotaways” who slip across the border unseen and melt into the country.
Considering even Democrat voters named border security as a big concern before Election Day, the famously liberal newspaper is being mocked and shamed for publishing a post-election story as if it just discovered the truth.
“It can all be said now,” Spectator writer Stephen Miller, a frequent media critic, wrote in an X post.
“It's remarkable that this story finally came over a month after the election,” Alex Pfeiffer, a Trump campaign advisor, also commented in an X post.
Mehlman similarly observes that Biden’s “accomplices” in the liberal media knew the border was a campaign issue but refused to address it.
“We all knew this,” he says. “Now that the election is over, I guess they feel that they got nothing to lose so they're going to report on it."
Going back to the Times story, Mehlman points out the figures show an average of 2.4 million people crossed into the United States each year. That is a larger population than Houston, Texas, and slightly smaller than Chicago, Illinois.
“When you are bringing in the equivalent of the third or the fourth largest city in the United States every year,” he says, “it is going to have profound implications on every aspect of life."
That observation by Mehlman proved true along the U.S. border itself. Trump won 14 of 18 border counties in Texas, and won 55% of the Hispanic vote in Texas, a post-election story by The Texas Tribune reported.
