Why Are The NYT and WaPo Pushing Obvious Falsehoods?

Haha yeah just kidding.
As if that would be something so notable as to require an explanation...
Alex Berenson hopes to give them the benefit of the doubt. I don't see how anyone could believe that they deserve it at this point.
As should go without saying: neither publication will pass up any opportunity to make the crisis--ergo Trump--look worse. Furthermore, of course, neither will pass up any opportunity to argue for increased immigration. And advancing the latter project also advances the former.