{"id":17686,"date":"2018-10-02T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17686"},"modified":"2018-12-28T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:48:00","slug":"new-york-times-again-buries-the-facts-to-push-its-own-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/10\/02\/new-york-times-again-buries-the-facts-to-push-its-own-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times (Again) Buries the Facts to Push Its Own Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"
It certainly sounds awful. The Trump administration is rousing children in middle of the night, loading them \u201conto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in West Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n
That is the lede of a recent New York Times article<\/a>, \u201cMigrant Children Moved Under Cover of Darkness to a Texas Tent City.\u201d<\/p>\n Sadly, the Times\u2019 report contains an ounce of truth buried in pounds of distortions. Let\u2019s start, as the Times should have done, with the facts.<\/p>\n Yes, the administration is relocating migrants to Tomillo, Texas. But they are unaccompanied minors (not children who illegally crossed the border with their parents) being housed at a temporary shelter and have been since June.<\/p>\n Yes, they are being moved at night. But, as the Times notes in a piece published a day later<\/a>, the reason for transporting them in the dark in order \u201cto avoid escape attempts\u201d since the facilities are \u201cunsecured.\u201d Note: That means they are not \u201cprison camps.\u201d<\/p>\n Yes, they are children. But, most attempted an illegal crossing alone, not with their parents or family members.<\/p>\n It is not the Trump administration\u2019s \u201ccruelty\u201d that is behind the relocations, but a response to the surge of those unaccompanied minors (UAMs) that is pushing shelters beyond capacity. The number of illegal alien minors apprehended by border officers has doubled from 3,100 in October 2017 to 6,400 in May, according to Customs and Border Protection (CPB) figures<\/a>.<\/p>\n