Yawn: Biden separating families at the border

Migrant children as young as 8 were separated from their parents at the southern border this summer, an inspector said on Friday. The mainstream media—which savaged former President Donald Trump’s separation of migrant families in the strongest terms—hardly bothered to report the news.

The coverage, or lack thereof, fits with a general shift in the media’s characterization of immigration enforcement. What was senseless cruelty by Trump is Biden doing the best he can under impossible circumstances. Never mind that Biden’s policies helped create the ongoing migrant crisis.

Now: Most major news outlets simply ignored the revelation, made in a filing by federal court monitor Dr. Paul Wise, that children at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection holding facility were held apart from their parents for up to four days this summer. Outlets that did cover the report tended to emphasize, starting in the headline, that the family separations were the result of “overcrowding” and other “challenges.”