A bizarre moment for the Washington Post. Reporter Nick Miroff and the Post’s editors headlined a story saying most of the migrants who arrived to the Del Rio camp have been sent to Haiti or turned back to Mexico, and haven’t been released into the U.S. according to certain data.
I’d link to the piece, but it’s behind a paywall.
This seems exceedingly false— and not just because the Cavalry - Dispatch says so. ABC News Reporter and Producer Quinn Owen even points out on Twitter that the math in the very same story contradicts the headline.
But that doesn’t stop Miroff from doubling down and saying his reporting is accurate.
Very bizarre.
Here are the numbers from Miroff’s own piece:
13,000 Haitians have been released into the United States.
8,000 voluntarily returned to Mexico.
5,500 were expelled.
5,000 remain in processing.
After having the math pointed out to him again on Twitter, Miroff apparently decided to split hairs— saying the reporting is accurate, if you only count the 15,000 that were actually under the bridge. The larger 30,000 were those taken into custody throughout the entire Del Rio sector, Miroff says.
This kind of jailhouse lawyering and hairsplitting is part of the problem, folks. People are coloring and shading their own reporting to try and spin a narrative one way or the other. Or, perhaps Miroff is just attempting to be a good soldier— sticking up for his editors even as they’ve muffed the headline. One could probably make a case either way, but neither is much help to people trying to make sense out of the crisis.
It should be noted, that with the way so many Haitians were coming and going from the bridge site, officials estimate there may have been 30,000 people in total that were under it at one time or another— filling in the gaps as Border Patrol tried to process others and maintaining a roughly steady 15,000 people under there until DPS could stop any further arrivals.
Even more alarming, is the news that more Haitians are coming and according to Todd Bensman— the pack under the Del Rio port of Entry are actually small potatoes. According to his reporting, as many as 50,000 illegal aliens are crossing into the U.S. every week now at the height of the border crisis— aided and abetted by U.S. taxpayer dollars funneled through the Department of Homeland Security to the various non-governmental organizations that are feeding and transporting illegals all over the country. Read the piece, it includes some stellar analysis of the past crisis, and what it reveals about current U.S. diplomacy with Mexico.
More Pictures From Kinney County
Meanwhile, in Kinney County— more illegals trying to escape notice and slip past Border Patrol and the Department of Public safety.
Pay attention to the information at the bottom of each photo. This is the exact same camera, 7 hours apart, showing two different packs of illegal aliens. You can tell it’s the same camera by the shape of the tree limbs in the background— they are identical. It is very likely that at least one person in each of these groups has some kind of a criminal record, accounting for why they are trying to stay off the radar.
It is a pity that there isn’t another shot, showing the backs of these illegals. Experts say you can sometimes tell the difference between regular old illegal aliens and drug smugglers, by comparing their backpacks.
Regular old illegal aliens will have a wide variety of packs— they will be in all shapes and sizes, consisting of whatever each individual was able to bring along for themselves on the journey.
Drug smugglers routinely have uniform burdens— regular corners, all the same shape and size on their backs, consisting of the freight packaged by the cartels that they are being paid or forced to carry.
That’s all for now— see you again soon, as we continue putting together our next piece analyzing case numbers in Kinney County. Until then, feel free to like, share and subscribe.