Media Whitewashes DHS Mayorkas’s Role in Migrant DeathsNeil Munro 29 Jun 2022
Reporters at establishment media outlets are whitewashing the U.S. government’s role in the lethal decision by 51 economic migrants to climb into a trailer truck that would carry them to their deaths in San Antonio, 150 miles inside the United States.
The New York Times‘ June 28 article, for example, did not mention President Joe Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, nor mention any of his border-opening policies that encourage economic migrants to risk their fortunes and lives to get U.S. jobs.
Instead, reporters James Dobbins, Miriam Jordan, and J. David Goodman focused the blame on the cartels that make money by guiding and relaying migrants through the pathways opened up by Mayorkas. But their article admitted that the location where the truck was found “had been a spot for migrant drop-offs since at least the 1990s.”
Mayorkas was also left out of The Washington Post‘s June 28 article which said, “The deaths come amid a record migration influx across the Mexico border, with the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures showing immigration arrests in May rose to the highest levels ever documented.”
Without mentioning Mayorkas’s policies, the article by reporters Eva Ruth Moravec, Arelis R. Hernández, Nick Miroff, and Maria Sacchetti, sketched out the recent death toll:
The U.S. government does not maintain a comprehensive count of migrant deaths along the border, because bodies and remains recovered by local or state officials are not always added to federal tallies. At least 650 people died in 2021 attempting to cross Mexico’s border with the United States, higher than in any year since 2014, according to the United Nations International Organization for Migration.
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