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The New York Times has finally run a long postmortem on the Biden administration’s border catastrophe, but it comes years too late to matter to the families, law enforcement, and taxpayers who lived through the chaos. Reporter Christopher Flavelle’s piece — headlined as a look at how Biden “ignored warnings and lost Americans’ faith in immigration” — reads like a belated confession from the paper that once cheered the open-border experiment.
What officials at the time warned about is now unambiguous: an August 2020 memo to Biden’s inner circle explicitly warned that his campaign promises could “create chaos” at the border and overwhelm processing capacities, and aides offered concrete steps to blunt the surge that were rejected. Choosing ideology over enforcement was a political calculation that blew up into a national emergency, and the Times’ reporting confirms what conservative critics have been saying for years — that those warnings were ignored.
The human and fiscal toll was predictable and devastating: encounters at the southern border doubled, border towns were overwhelmed, and even blue cities like New York scrambled to shelter waves of migrants in hotels while social services buckled. Those failures didn’t happen in a vacuum — they fueled anger among voters who watched their communities change and drove the political backlash that helped return a Republican White House in 2024.
What makes the Times’ timing so cynical is how it refuses to include itself in the indictment. As Megyn Kelly and guest Walter Kirn pointed out on her show, the paper has only now decided to act shocked — even as it helped normalize and sanitize the policies and images that encouraged the surge. The piece’s selection of the infamous mounted horse photo and its softened language about it shows the same old media pattern: deflect when convenient, then deploy moral outrage when the political winds change.
This isn’t honest reporting so much as late-stage narrative control. Even inside the paper, commentators are admitting what conservatives have been saying all along: Biden’s immigration approach was never what most American voters wanted, and the political costs were obvious long before 2024. The Times is finally admitting the mess, but don’t mistake their timing for courage — it’s self-preservation and partisan theater.
Patriots know the solution: secure the border, enforce the law, and stop rewarding policies that destabilize communities and harm working Americans. We should welcome reporting that tells the truth, but demand accountability from the people who made the decisions and from the outlets that cheered them on. If the country is to heal, Washington and a captured press must be held to account — no more excuses, no more delays, and no more open borders.
