DANIEL MCCARTHY: Biden’s Immigration Debacle Is the Media’s, Too

The New York Times has invented a new genre of reporting — covering big stories showing Democrats in a bad light years after the events that matter.

At the tail end of 2025, the Times has freshly broken the news that the Biden administration flooded the country with illegal immigrants, partly for ideological and partisan reasons, partly out of sheer incompetence.

Who knew?

The nearly 4,000-word A1 story by Christopher Flavelle, with 14 colleagues contributing additional reporting and research, is certainly well sourced, but none of its sources have just come to light.

It dissects Biden’s immigration misdeeds and missteps over each of his four years in office.

Great — but why not do that while the guy’s actually in power?

Immigration isn’t suddenly an issue today. It’s been the biggest domestic story since COVID ended.

And even before COVID, going all the way back to 2016, Donald Trump put immigration at the forefront of presidential politics.

In private, Democrats close to Biden were discussing the crisis all along and knew his agenda would only make it worse.

“Mr. Biden’s policy advisers sounded the alarm before he even won the election,” the Times acknowledges. “In August of 2020, several aides wrote a memo cautioning Mr. Biden’s inner circle that his promises” of lighter immigration enforcement “coupled with pent-up demand from the Trump years and economic hardship from Covid … could provoke a spike in border crossings.”

Democrats were fully aware of what they were getting the country into, and they did it anyway.

Their voters didn’t know, however, because the media didn’t do the unflinching reporting necessary to inform them — not until just now.