Immigration

On Morning Joe, cranky Joe Scarborough warns Democrats that if they don't deal with the issues of crime, and the chaos at the southern border, "then thugs like Donald Trump will. And we don't want that to happen."

Univision's immigration advocacy has reached the point to where the network's news division now promotes a swimming instructor that is training potential migrants on how to swim across the Rio Grande.

Despite charges against them being dropped, on Jonathan Capehart's MSNBC show, Maria Hinojosa of NPR accuses border agents of having "whipped" Haitians attempting to cross the southern border. And Capehart seemingly denies the notion that any immigration can be illegal, speaking of "quote unquote, illegal immigration."

In the New York Times story “Democrats Face Tough Questions as a Border Saga Enters a New Chapter,” Leah Askarinam interviewed two Times reporters who have been covering the immigration-troubled Biden Administration’s ditching of Title 42, a Trump policy that slowed the admission of migrants on the southern border on public health grounds, specifically Covid concerns. The…

After spending days beating a dead horse with their fake news coverage claiming Border Patrol agents were “whipping” Haitian migrants, the liberal broadcast networks ignored the news that the agents involved were all cleared of alleged wrongdoing. 

In a stunningly economically illiterate opinion piece in The Washington Post, columnist Catherine Rampell argues that President Joe Biden can solve rampant inflation by letting more immigrants into the United States. 

Given the busy news week, we wanted on Monday morning to recap the best and the worst from Thursday and Friday’s episodes of The Psaki Show and hone in on Fox’s Peter Doocy sparring with Press Secretary Jen Psaki over COVID cases around the President and Vice President and then free cellphones for illegal immigrants.

After spending the previous segment celebrating Senate Democrats’ successful confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, the NBC Meet the Press panel eventually turned to despair when they realized this might be the last legislative success of the Biden administration before the midterms (and if Republicans take control of Congress the last period).

Remind us: who is Biden's border czar? We seem to remember that it's Kamala Harris--even if, after more than a year in office, she hasn't actually made it to the border.  But there was Tiffany Cross on her MSNBC show this morning, in effect accusing Biden-Harris of a racist, "double-standard," immigration policy favoring white Ukrainians over asylum seekers from Central America and Africa.

A couple recent episodes of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard featured Starfleet crew members traveling back in time to present day to beat up U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, free a busload of illegal immigrants on their way to be deported, and lecture that racism just “took off a hood and put on a suit” in the early 21st Century.

If it wasn’t already clear that the networks want to avoid talking about the crisis at the border, that fact was proven all over again on Thursday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday that, due to the federal government’s refusal to deal with the immigration problem, he will be sending busloads of illegals to the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C. 

Wednesday’s Psaki Show marked a contrast between the constructive and the absurd as Fox’s Peter Doocy engaged the White House press secretary on questions surrounding President Biden’s son Hunter and brother Jim and, as other reporters would as well, immigration. But in contrast, others expressed discomfort with a lack of COVID restrictions, raised concerns about right-wing terrorism, and…

Denial of the southern border crisis hit a new and very dumb low during Wednesday’s edition of The View as ABC co-host Joy Behar openly scoffed at the fact that drugs, specifically fentanyl from China, were coming into the United States over the border. She even suggested those facts were just “Fox News” “talking points,” and demanded Ukrainian refugees be accused of smuggling in…