There’s “no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border,” a Washington Post headline declared on March 25, the report itself asserting there is neither “a surge” nor “a crisis.” The online version of the story was edited later so that it now concedes there’s a “surge” but that it is merely part of “a predictable pattern.”

The same week, the Associated Press sent staff a memo instructing writers and editors not to refer to what is happening on the U.S. southern border as a “crisis.”