Corporate media are trying to fool voters into believing that illegal border crossings are “plunging” and the invasion is “quieting” thanks to the joint efforts of the Biden Administration and Mexico, but don’t be fooled by their Biden-boosting spin.
One particular article from the Intelligencer confidently declared “Migrant Border Crossings Are Dropping Rapidly” and wondered if the purported decrease is “Too Late to Help Biden.”
The article branded public disapproval of the border invasion as a product of a “drumbeat of news” and “incessant Republican complaints on the subject,” instead of a growing problem that victimizes young and old Americans everywhere. The author also claimed the so-called “drop” in border crossings is “really good news for the 46th president” ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
“If border crossings continue to drop until election day, hyperbolic Republican claims that Biden has ‘opened the border’ will begin to ring hollow, and Trump’s second-term plans to undertake a massive armed deportation drive will begin to sound as cruel as the former president himself,” the author notes wistfully.
First things first, illegal border crossings aren’t actually dropping from the record-breaking levels President Joe Biden and his administration have welcomed and incentivized. In April 2024 alone, 179,725 illegal crossers were caught (and likely released) by Customs and Border Protection after they tried to sneak across the Southwest border.
That number may be down from the eye-popping 200,000 plus apprehensions recorded that same month in 2023 and 2022, but it’s far from the normal range the Southern
