Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
Surprised Joe's troubles at the border aren't being jumped on with as much zest as his troubles on the steps up to Air Force One.

Calling like I see 'em... and ol' Joe isn't exactly covering himself in glory in dealing with the mess that right now is the U.S.-Mexico border and "Oh... what oh what to do with all these abandoned kids."
There isn't an ongoing soap opera every day so the media has to take whatever they have and expand it to fit the newshole. There was a bigger surge back in 2019 and it got zero media coverage as there'd already been one earlier in Trump's term and there was a new scandal/outrage/whatever every day to cover instead.

Some facts:

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...88174594539528


https://twitter.com/bay_bay2005/stat...27025945890818


There's a huge backlog of people who would have come last year but for the pandemic and who are going to try and come this year. It is a massive problem but it's an ongoing thing, the current surge started long before Biden took office as the graph shows.