As encounters with illegal aliens along the southwest portion of the border hit all-time lows it is important to remember that, until very recently, it wasn’t always this way. And before our southern border was overrun, Spanish-language media mostly kept quiet about the onslaught that was to come.
On the back end of the pandemic, Title 42 was the only thing sort of holding the border together with duct tape, chewing gum and bailing wire. There were real concerns that removing Title 42 would blow the border right open.
Coverage was mixed at best: Univision completely omitted covering the Biden administration’s concerns over the potential border surge, CNN en Español barely covered it and Telemundo ran a report that featured no comment from the administration:
JOHANA SUÁREZ: There are fears of a massive arrival of migrants at the southern border with the elimination of Title 42, the rule that allows the denial of entry to people who cross seeking asylum. According to reports, the United States is already preparing buses and tents to deal with this wave of migration. Cristina Londoño has more.
CRISTINA LONDOÑO: Fearing a surge of more than 170,000 immigrants, the Biden administration is making extraordinary preparations, according to Axios, because they fear a mass exodus when they abolish title 42 with which former President Donald Trump closed the border at the peak of the pandemic.
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We asked the government to confirm the existence of this contingency plan in case of a massive arrival of migrants at the border, but they did not answer.
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It is estimated that there are more than 25,000 immigrants waiting in Mexico for the border to reopen.
As MRC Latino noted at the time:
It doesn´t look good. As the media covers up the inconvenient news of upcoming waves of migrants hitting our borders in their quest for asylum, 25,000 are already in Mexico waiting for the good-to-go from Uncle Sam; right behind them, some 170,000 more are expected to arrive and be sent to different locations in the US.
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Instead of the silent treatment the White House and the Hispanic media -so vociferous when it comes to the safety of other nation´s borders- should be publicly addressing a national threat versus quietly devising a "contingency plan" with other government agencies that includes the use of buses and planes to transfer the migrants, and - hear this - building new tents (formerly called ´cages´ under Trump) to house them.
Time proved that there was no contingency plan except to blow the border open and take about 12 million illegal aliens into the country, and fly them all over the interior of the country. And for the longest time, the media pretended that nothing was happening.
That is, until the country was shocked by migrant crimes in big cities like New York and horrified by needless and totally avoidable murders such as those of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and so many others.
The caravans have ground to a halt now, and migrant encounters are at near all-time lows. But we are reminded that it wasn’t always this way.
