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In a data dump Friday, the Biden administration announced that more than a quarter million people crossed the border illegally in December – the highest ever recorded. The timing of this release was designed to bury the news, not that it mattered, since the mainstream media have ignored the growing border crisis with fierce determination.

But that’s not the worst of it. Border deaths also reached all-time highs. That news is so bad, the “most transparent administration in history” tried to keep it hidden altogether, coughing it up only in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. When that data did come out … crickets.

This silence is particularly galling, given that the left was screaming bloody murder about border deaths during the Trump administration.

The publicly released news showed that Border Patrol agents stopped 251,487 illegal crossers in December. That’s a 7% increase from November, a 40% increase from the year before, and a 240% increase from December 2020.

Keep in mind that it’s not like Border Patrol agents caught a quarter million trying to sneak into the U.S. In Biden’s open-border world, illegal immigrants cross the border and then wait patiently wait for border agents to pick them up, process them in border facilities, and release them into the country, often with the sub-rosa help of NGOs. The Biden administration has turned illegal immigration into a well-oiled machine.

In addition to the 251,487 are what the government politely termed “got-aways.” These are the illegals who do sneak across the border and avoid border patrol agents because they have a good reason to expect that they’d be expelled. The number of got-aways over just the past two years is estimated at 1 million – which would make them the 10th largest city in the country. How many of them are gangbangers? Terrorists? Criminals? Who knows?

Incredibly, acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Troy Miller said that “The December update shows our new border enforcement measures are working.”

A better description is an invasion, one aided and abetted by the Biden administration, the Democratic party, and the legacy media that has covered it up.

It’s also a deadly one to the migrants themselves.

Over the last fiscal year, 880 immigrants died trying to get into the U.S. That is the highest number of deaths since data became available, according to numbers obtained by the Epoch Times through a FOIA request.

The second-largest number of migrant deaths occurred the year before, when 566 perished.

By comparison, in fiscal 2020, there were 247 border deaths — a record low.

If the media weren’t so corrupt, they would have been all over this story.

For one thing, they’d demand to know why “the most transparent” administration decided to stop releasing the number of border deaths, which had previously been part of the CPB’s reporting.

Then, they’d want to know why all those Democrats — including Biden — who were screaching about every border death during the Trump administration have been silent now.

Here’s an example of what they said then. In July 2019, the press published a photo of the bodies of Oscar Alberto Martínez and his infant daughter, Angie Valeria, who had drowned attempting to cross the Rio Grande River from Mexico into Texas.

As National Review reported at the time, the photo “renewed outrage about the border crisis,” and “politicians expressed their indignation at the image while, predictably, blaming the Trump administration.”

Here’s a sampling of what Democrats and their media protectors said:

Kamala Harris: “Trump says, ‘Go back to where you came from.’ That is inhumane. Children are dying. This is a stain on our moral conscience.”

Beto O’Rourke: “Trump is responsible for these deaths.”

Cory Booker: “These are the consequences of Donald Trump’s inhumane and immoral immigration policy.”

Joe Biden: “This image is gut-wrenching. The cruelty we’re seeing at our border is unconscionable.”

Chuck Schumer: “You (Trump) are head of the executive branch. You control what’s happening at the border.”

Los Angeles Times: “If we, as a nation, do not raise our voices in collective outrage, we are complicit.”

Vox.com: The photo “shows the true nature of Trump’s immigration policy.”

All of these expressions of mad fury, by the way, came in a year when border deaths were at a historic low.

We won’t hold our breath waiting for the mainstream press to ask each of them to respond to the skyrocketing death toll under Biden.