Nick Miroff,
Nick Miroff is a reporter for The Washington Post, covering the Department of Homeland Security. He has been a staff writer since 2006 and has a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Miroff studied at the University of California at Santa Cruz and has covered immigration enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security on the National desk. He was a Washington Post correspondent in Latin America from 2010 to 2017, based in Havana and Mexico City.
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The Daily's Verdict
This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.
Bias
82%
Examples:
- President Biden has been in a political bind over the border, as the issue has become increasingly important for voters.
- Several liberal lawmakers have criticized Biden for his increasingly tough stance on the border, and pro-immigration activists have accused him of betraying core American ideals and not adopting more humane immigration policies after Trump’s turbulent term.
- Trump has continuously attacked him for what he has described as 'open border' policies and 'Biden migrant crime', pledging to enact a sweeping crackdown if he wins the presidency.
Conflicts of Interest
100%
Examples:
- The Mexican official said that country’s national guard is doing more to support its immigration enforcement agency and has restarted direct deportation flights to Venezuela.
Contradictions
82%
Examples:
- A bipartisan group of senators is engaged in negotiations that would unlock the money by implementing enforcement measures sought by Republicans, including additional restrictions on access to the U.S. asylum system and expansion of the government’s deportation powers.
- Biden officials declined to say what specific measures Mexico has taken to reduce crossings, referring reporters to Mexican authorities.
- Biden officials said tighter enforcement by Mexico and a holiday lull led to lower numbers of illegal entries over the past several days, after weeks of acute strains.
- Republican lawmakers in the House say those changes don’t go far enough.
- The Biden administration has asked Congress for nearly $14 billion in additional funding to shore up the U.S. immigration system and operations along the southern border, where record numbers of migrants have crossed illegally in recent weeks.
- The group traveling to the border Wednesday will be visiting Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Tex.), an architect of the House GOP’s border security bill, which includes provisions that Democrats have described as nonstarters.
- U.S. agents recorded nearly 250,000 illegal crossings along the southern border in December, the highest one-month total ever reported.
Deceptions
75%
Examples:
- Republicans are ready to tackle this crisis
- The closures sometimes apply to pedestrians and sometimes to vehicles, choke off cross-border travel and trade with Mexico.
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