This piece rests on WaPo’s attribution of the recent surge in border crossings to Biden’s policy stances as the predominant driver of events and reticence to declare the Trump practice of expelling unaccompanied minors illegal, framing it instead as a useful but abandoned measure
https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1373378473100709892
Unfortunately for those arguments, WaPo published a piece that included this reporting six weeks before Biden took office. washingtonpost.com/immigration/mi… 
It also seems to be WaPo’s sotto voce editorial position that “hundreds of families crowded into squalid camps” just outside US territory is a policy win, whereas letting them out of those camps and beginning a legal adjudication process is a failure.
Not an easy subject to cover at any time and esp when there’s so much pathos pouring in, but riding as hard for the restrictionists as this does means ignoring a lot that is relevant (e.g., you won’t find hurricanes in today’s piece) and turning a blind eye to law and decency.
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