crucial errors.

First, they underestimated the scale of migration that was coming. Second, they failed to appreciate the political reaction to that migration — believing that stronger enforcement would alienate Latino and progressive voters, and also that a border surge would not be an important issue to most voters. Those calculations would later prove to be mistaken, with many voters, including Latinos, citing immigration as a reason for supporting Mr. Trump in 2024.

“Everybody was reacting to the excesses of the Trump administration,” said Cecilia Muñoz, who helped shape immigration policy in the Obama administration and oversaw domestic and economic policy for the Biden transition team.

problem ran deeper than Republican obstruction.

The Biden White House “had no strategy, because they had no goal,” said Scott Shuchart, who joined the administration in 2022 as a senior adviser at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “All they had was wishing the problem would go away so that they could focus on the things they cared about.”

Year 1: Chaos, Then Paralysis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807581&forum_id=2Firm#49491742)

“When it became clear Congress wouldn’t act, Biden took decisive action on his own,” the statement said.

Mr. Klain defended the administration’s actions on immigration as part of a broader set of priorities.

“We came in during an economic collapse and 3,000 Americans dying each day from Covid. We focused on those first and got both turned around quickly,” he said. “We ended the cruelty of Trump’s immigration policies but hit a wall on building a sensible asylum system when Republicans blocked action on needed legislation.”

But former advisers said the problem ran deeper than Republican obstruction.

The Biden White House “had no strategy, because they had no goal,” said Scott Shuchart, who joined the administration in 2022 as a senior adviser at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “All they had was wishing the problem would go away so that they could focus on the things they cared about.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807581&forum_id=2Firm#49491755)

“What I’ve done — since I’ve changed the law, what’s happened?” said Mr. Biden, who had not changed the law. “I’ve changed it in a way that now you’re in a situation where there are 40 percent fewer people coming across the border illegally.”

Mr. Biden went on: “I’m going to continue to move until we get the total ban on the … the total initiative relative to what we’re going to do with more Border Patrol and more asylum officers.”

“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence,” Mr. Trump responded. “I don’t think he knows what he said either.”

Within a month, Mr. Biden left the race.

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807581&forum_id=2Firm#49491915)

In reality, this is a whitewash. Blame the old regime for “miscalculating” something and move on. The new folks running in the midterms are different.

Except every Democrat understood and continues to understand the short term political price they will pay for open borders, and they don’t care. It’s a long term play for demographic change and voters. This wasn’t a miscalculation, and the NYT reporting here is part of the playbook of getting to the long term solution with the lowest possible long term blowback.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807581&forum_id=2Firm#49491994)

the NYT and WaPo are trade press: their function is to signal to those in the industry (elite libs and uni-party GOP) what the party line is moving forward.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5807581&forum_id=2Firm#49492092)