About a month ago, Dara Lind published an op-ed in the New York Times claiming that while Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis brought attention to the immigration issue by flying immigrants to Martha’s Vineyard, DeSantis failed “to articulate what America ought to be doing on the U.S.-Mexico border.”
As I noted at the time, this was completely false. DeSantis was very clear about exactly what policy he believed would solve the Biden Border Crisis.
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“I think that what we’ve been able to do is show that this border is a disaster,” DeSantis told Sean Hannity at the time. “Biden has failed on this as much or more than on any other policy. And now, people are talking about it. And we want solutions as Americans. We want to make sure that Trump’s policy of Remain in Mexico can be reinstituted so we can get control over what is going on down there.”
At no point in her op-ed did Lind acknowledge that DeSantis had said this or that Remain in Mexico ever existed in the first place.
Fast forward to today, and the New York Times is back at it again with another immigration story, this one titled “Democrats Twist and Turn on Immigration as Republicans Attack in Waves.”
The story is mostly about how Republicans are pouncing on the immigration issue to hurt Democrats politically. It is not until the 21st paragraph that the Times admits that “record numbers of undocumented immigrants” are arriving at the southern border.
The story then claims that former President Donald Trump made it hard for Democrats to “balance” the immigration issue since “outrage” over his policies pushed them “to the left on the issue.”
The Times then lists some of Trump’s immigration policies, including “barring travel from several predominantly Muslim countries; ending protections for young immigrants brought into the country illegally as children; and separating migrant parents from their children at the border to deter crossings. During the pandemic, Mr. Trump also used an old public health rule to quickly expel asylum seekers.”
Notice anything missing from the list?
Remain in Mexico.
Earlier in the piece, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) tells the Times, “There is no topic more frustrating for me than immigration, because it cannot be distilled into 30 seconds.” Republicans, Escobar continued, were “very good” at “making it sound like one quick and easy action will change everything.”
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Remain in Mexico isn’t easy. It took months to set up. Trump had to threaten Mexico with a trade war to put it in place. But it was simple and it worked.
Unfortunately, Biden ended the policy on his first day in office, and the number of illegal border crossings immediately spiked. Democrats are going to continue to have a very tough time on the immigration issue until they can admit that some of Trump’s policies actually worked.
