The migrant crisis that has engulfed the US is a decisive issue in the November election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
In this special video panel report, The Post’s journalists who have been on the front lines of the emergency explain how we got to this point.
Over 9 million people have poured over the country’s borders — never-before-encountered levels of immigration — since Joe Biden took office.
But stats alone can’t tell the story behind the complex issue of immigration and how it’s affecting every American, from small towns to our biggest city, New York.
Even simple questions are hard to find answers to: Why are so many people coming? Are they in the country legally? How are they checked to make sure they’re genuine before being let in? Who’s paying for these millions to stay, and for how long?
This video addresses those issues and explains how the border system works — and doesn’t work.
You will learn about secret flights bringing migrants into the US under the cover of night, security lapses that have let potential terrorists into the country, infiltration by deadly South American gangs — leading to the rape and murder of US citizens — and how, at every step, the Biden administration has simply shrugged its shoulders.
Featured are The Post’s Texas reporter Jennie Taer, who has covered border issues for over four years, traveling to Central America and across the southern border for scoops. Along the way, she has built an invaluable database of contacts, from border agents in the field to the highest levels of the Department of Homeland Security.
She is joined by Kevin Sheehan, who has seen every gritty slice of New York life reporting from the city’s trenches for The Post since 2010. He has spent the last two years describing and exposing the conditions in migrant camps — both legal and illegal — since hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers started arriving in the city.
Host Andy Tillett has edited border coverage for The Post since 2022 and is an expert on the archaic and complicated asylum system, the Border Patrol’s stats and figures and crunching the data to show not only what’s happening at the border, but what the government is trying to hide.
