NY Times editorial director admits Biden’s immigration policy was ‘never what most American voters wanted’
The Times' David Leonhardt detailed how Biden's immigration policy was far more radical than Obama's
By Gabriel Hays Fox News
Published March 4, 2025 7:00pm EST
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In an interview with The New Yorker, the editorial director of The New York Times opinion section railed against former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy, saying it was "never what most American voters wanted."
David Leonhardt, who has been running the Times’ "The Morning" newsletter for the last five years, told The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner that the Biden administration’s historically lax immigration standards were one of the top three reasons the Democratic Party lost the 2024 election to President Donald Trump.
"It was unpopular from the beginning. And it happened in large part—not exclusively, but in large
U.S. President Joe Biden
The editorial director of The New York Times opinion section wrote that most Americans opposed ex-President Biden's immigration policy. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
As Leonhardt reported for The New York Times in December, the years 2021 through 2023 saw the highest pace of migrant arrivals to the United States in the entire country’s history.
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