The media circus has two lexicons that they juggle on a daily basis, using one exclusively for candidates they like and another for those they don't.
The terms used for the facilities used to house illegal migrants is one of the best examples of this.
Behold, the raw beauty of word choice!
And one more from USA Today for good measure:
Here's what the
WaPo article
said:
Government officials say the camp is needed because facilities for migrant children have had to cut capacity by nearly half because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border has been inching up, with January reporting the highest total — more than 5,700 apprehensions — for that month in recent years.
Huh, that's funny. So such "kids in cages" facilities are okay now because of the Rona? And what's that about illegal border activity increasing? Since the WaPo purports to be a news organization, you'd think they'd ask the logical question of why said crossings started increasing in January.Could it be - and I'm just spitballing here - that perhaps Trump's tough immigration policies kept the number of crossings down, therefore reducing the number of kids that needed to be housed in "cages?"But WaPo didn't want to report on that. After all, they already ran a
piece in October talking about how those "cages" were built under Obama and Biden, but that Trump's "zero tolerance" policies "had no precedent."
Fortunately, a sizable portion of the populace knows they're being spoon fed this purposeful shift:
What a clown show.
Comment: More
from The National Pulse:
Biden is Putting Migrant Kids in Cages And Now AOC Doesn't Care
Joe Biden is re-opening a child migrant detention center, but neither the establishment media nor left-wing politicians appear to care. The response is starkly different from when President Trump operated the detention centers he inherited from the Obama-Biden administration.
The move is said to be a direct result of the relaxation of border enforcement, a stunning admission made in CNN reports.
...
Once known for crying at a fence overlooking a parking lot, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has - at the time of publication - said nothing about Biden's new move to "put kids in cages."
National advocacy groups are also silent, and outlets such as the New York Times and CNN have failed to criticize Biden and his regime for re-opening the center and congregating migrant children in close conditions.
Perhaps the most important part of why these centers need to reopen in the first instance is the most important: the relaxation of enforcement. In other words, Joe Biden has signaled for people to come, illegally, into the United States.
When they arrive, he's putting them in detention centers.
And Psaki is defending the move.
From RT:
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has recast the reopening of one of ex-president Trump's infamous migrant detention centers as a temporary fix for the pandemic, arguing that not locking kids up would be "inhumane."
Psaki was skewered by reporters on Tuesday after the Biden administration reopened a migrant detention facility that had been closed in 2019 under former president Donald Trump.
The press secretary floundered as she attempted to defend Biden's stated policy "not to expel unaccompanied children who arrive at the border" by putting those children back in the "cages" - actually shipping containers - he had so vociferously denounced when they were used by his predecessor.
"This is not kids being kept in cages," Psaki insisted, arguing "this is a facility that was reopened that is going to follow the same standards as other [Department of Health and Human Services] facilities."
"It is not a replication. Certainly not."
Psaki then emphasized that "That's never our intention - of replicating immigration policies of the past administration. But we are in a circumstance where we are not going to expel unaccompanied minors at the border. That would be inhumane."
Her explanation begged the question of which is less humane, given that Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris had rushed to cast Trump's use of the same facilities in 2019 as a "human rights abuse being committed by the United States government."
Harris especially accused Trump of having "pushed policies that's been [sic] about putting babies in cages at the border in the name of security."
Thus caught between a rock and a hard place, Psaki stressed that "there is a pandemic going on," suggesting that justified the reopening of the Texas facility - since the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the kids' final destination, can no longer house as many people due to Covid-19 space restrictions.
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While a handful of Biden supporters had rallied to Psaki's aid on social media, suggesting the shipping-container cells were a step up from "cages" because they offered privacy, they avoided addressing the issue that those facilities had offered the same "privacy" under Trump, back when they were denounced as human rights violations. More clear-eyed Democrats and migrant advocates, on the other hand, slammed the reopening of the 700-child facility as "absolutely against everything Biden promised he was going to do."
Comment: More from The National Pulse: And Psaki is defending the move. From RT: