No, the kind in which the irritating habits have become so foreseeable that I realize the problem's not with me, it's with him - and that problem is a lack of transparency and accountability coupled with foreseeable late-night dumps of bad news, and the Southwest border news for August promises to be dreadful.
He even sent his friends at the Washington Post around to let me know that he was correct, as they assured me "There's no migrant 'surge' at the U.S. southern border. Here's the data." Of course, in its own act of gaslighting, the Post later quietly changed that headline to the much blander and more anodyne "The migrant 'surge' at the U.S. southern border is actually a predictable pattern."
Normally, CBP releases its monthly Southwest border encounter numbers on the 15th of the following month, and therefore the monthly Southwest border encounter stats for September 2022 - and the yearly numbers for FY 2022 - should have dropped on Saturday, October 15.
There is something decidedly deceptive, shabby, and unbecoming about the way CBP released its FY 2022 Southwest border statistics - late at night, nearly a week after they are normally published, and past the point voters had begun casting ballots to determine which party will control Congress.
CBP's numbers showing that Border Patrol agents apprehended more illegal entrants at the Southwest border in December 2022 than in any prior month in history didn't appear until the evening of Friday, January 20, even though on their face they revealed they were ready to publish two days earlier.
According to the paper, Border Patrol apprehensions at the Southwest border surged in August, exceeding 177,000 - a 33 percent increase over July, which itself was a 33 percent increase over June.
As the foregoing shows, I'm disheartened by the administration's broken transparency promises and its seeming indifference to the national-security and humanitarian disaster it continues to promote at the Southwest border.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Bidens-Lack-Border-Transparency-Becoming-Way-Too-Predictable
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