Sooner or later, the New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news that it has caught up with mass immigration, legal and illegal, from less developed countries is politically toxic. 

That news was relayed on a Feb. 24 article and thread on X by reporter David Leonhardt, a writer of center-left sympathies and a keen analyst of statistics — and the human realities to which they are useful clues.