Legacy media ignored the border crisis. Will they wake up on public safety?

Sheriffs live with the real-world consequences of decisions made in Washington every day. We welcomed the depth of the New York Times’s recent 4,000-word opus on the Biden administration’s border failures, appropriately titled, “How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans’ Faith in Immigration.”

But let’s be honest: This reporting is years late. Sheriffs — Democrats, Republicans, and independents — were sounding the alarm in real time, pleading for national attention while the crisis escalated right before our eyes. Had the New York Times investigated these failures with urgency when they were unfolding, more Americans and more migrants would be alive today.

In July 2022, sheriffs hosted New York Times reporters on a border tour so they could see what we see: ranch roads littered with abandoned clothing, stash houses hiding terrified migrants, and makeshift graveyards marking lives lost to desperation and false promises. The same tragedy appeared in our own reporting: At least 856 migrants

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