Thread by @SawyerHackett

I respect every journalist on this byline. But this is pure hot garbage, beginning to end.

https://twitter.com/NickMiroff/status/1373387032983134208

Let’s start with the premise of Biden “tearing down the guardrails” on immigration.

MPP isn’t a guardrail, metering isn’t a guardrail, disallowing children to seek asylum isn’t a guardrail.

Trump should be arraigned on human rights crimes for using Title 42 on children.

Has Trump so fundamentally broken the media’s brains that restoring centuries of immigration law is considered radical?

Is it considered smart politics to tell a 8 year old child they’re being deported back to gangs who threatened their lives?

Seriously, what’s a better outcome—children in overcrowded facilities or 10K children expelled to back cartels?

To the media it seems it’s “out of sight out of mind” is the best policy. Where the fuck was the outrage when Trump deported 13K children last year?

The article fails to mention a 700% surge in unaccompanied minors in Trump’s last year, and a 360% surge in adults seeking asylum.

It fails to seriously examine that the Trump admin refused to cooperate w/ the transition—which is the most important factor here in preparation.

The Democratic members of Congress quoted are playing politics. Their interviews critiquing the admin offer no solutions, and add fuel to the nativist, anti immigrant sentiments Trump created. They claim expertise and sound like fools.

And it quotes Chad fucking Wolf.

The article names suspending wall construction, protections for Dreamers, and ending the Muslim ban as part of an “aggressive strategy” that contributed to a spike in CBP encounters. That makes zero sense.

The messaging critique here is an unwillingness to call the situation “a crisis”—a GOP and sympathetic media manufactured semantics debate that is pointless and irrelevant.

It starts by telling readers Biden admin has been saying “don’t come,” but every quote claims otherwise.

This is an editor driven story designed to show the Washington Post is fair in its criticism of both sides.

But it conveniently ignores what’s been happening at the border the last year—or what happened for 4 years under Trump.