New York Times readers finally learn that Biden policies spurred a wave of illegal immigration

See All the News That’s Suddenly Fit to Print After the Election by Jason L. Riley. Excerpt:

"Take last week’s front-page story in the New York Times highlighting the extraordinary levels of illegal immigration over the past four years. Under a headline “Recent Stream of Immigrants Is Largest Ever,” we are made aware that the pace of arrivals exceeds “any other period on record, including the peak years of Ellis Island traffic, when millions of Europeans came to the United States.” We’re told that around “60 percent of immigrants who have entered the country since 2021 have done so without legal authorization.” And we’re informed that while unrest in Haiti, Venezuela, Ukraine and other places has contributed to the migrant inflow, “the Biden administration’s policy appears to have been the biggest factor.”

There was nothing wrong with the story’s content, but the postelection timing makes you wonder. Five weeks after an election in which illegal immigration was foremost on the minds of many voters, the Times now allows that the current administration’s lax border-security policies, not turmoil abroad, were the main driver of the worst migrant crisis in U.S. history. It’s a story that might have been written dozens of times over the past year but wasn’t because doing so would have helped Mr. Trump advance his signature issue and harmed his political opponents. This is what happens when the press is more interested in shaping public opinion than in reporting the facts. It happens a lot these days."