According to a Wednesday analysis by The New York Times, President Joe Biden oversaw the highest levels of net migration in U.S. history. Speaking on “2WAY Tonight,” Jamie and Halperin accused the media of favoring Biden, claiming this bias jeopardizes Americans’ safety while aiming to discredit Trump.
“To me, the media is supposed to be unbiased, but they’re supposed to protect citizens; they’re supposed to protect humanity in a way, right? Report on things that are happening. And the border has really upset me, because when you refuse to report on the border, as most of the media did, you’re not protecting citizens from illegal aliens who are committing crimes like a Laken Riley,” Jamie said. “You’re not protecting our folks who are dying of drug overdose. And my biggest thing is these children missing at the border.”
In November, Venezuelan illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra was convicted for the February killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Additionally, an August report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lost track of over 32,000 migrant children released from the custody of DHS and the Department of Health and Human Services since 2019.
“The fact that the media decided that they were more interested in protecting Joe Biden and the Democratic Party than they were in protecting the citizens and the children, I don’t care where these children are from,” Jamie added. “They need to be protected … To me, it’s just appalling that we have a press that would rather protect one party and one president.”
“Jamie, I wish every journalist, every executive producer, every news executive, every reporter who covers the administration could hear what you just said. And brilliantly and well expressed — fundamental failure of people in my business to do the most basic job, as you said it,” Halperin responded. “And I’d say running parallel to that … the exact same dynamic is the president’s cognitive decline. Same thing. Public interests completely ignored in a conspiracy of silence. Without thinking about the public interest, simply thinking, ‘But we can’t let Trump win again.’”
Customs and Border Protection data shows approximately 8.5 million migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico border during the four fiscal years of the Biden administration.
“And in both cases, the policies and practices of the Democratic Party were not just policy malpractice, but political malpractice. How do you have a policy deeply unpopular from day one, with effects that spiral out of control, that make things worse and worse — and you do nothing about it? In part, because the media doesn’t do its job,” Halperin added.
“If the media had been saying, ‘Joe Biden seems to have a significant loss of cognitive decline,’ or if the media had been saying in 2022, ‘Every Democrat we talk to who represents a border state is saying privately, and some publicly, this policy is not working,’ then perhaps there would have been change,” he said.
The political analyst suggested that fewer Americans might have been killed by illegal immigrants if the media had been less biased.
“You’re absolutely right about the failure of the press. And I would say what’s compounding it is silence. Sure, they write a story today, but the story doesn’t say, ‘Editor’s note: We should have written this story three years ago. We should have written it two years ago and 11 months ago.’ Same on the Biden cognitive decline,” he said. “And people are not stupid — even people who are not news obsessives. They’re not stupid. They know that the press tried to protect Joe Biden and they don’t like it.”
Halperin pointed out that voters on his 2WAY platform have expressed that they “voted for Trump because the press is so biased,” regardless of their personal opinions about the president-elect.
Trump has promised to carry out a large-scale deportation operation during his second term.
