Reporter Todd Bensman is one of the few journalists at America’s southern border in Texas, covering the mass migration crisis that has worsened since the lifting of Title 42—a Trump-era policy allowing U.S. authorities to swiftly expel illegal immigrants.
“You cannot find a single Border Patrol agent anywhere in sight. They are pulled off of this operation,” says Bensman. “At the federal level, they were just escorting them all in for processing, which filled the processing stations to 150 percent capacity.”
In the last few days, Bensman has witnessed thousands of migrants meet no resistance from law enforcement as they cross the Rio Grande river from Matamoros, Mexico, and climb over razor wire into Brownsville, Texas. In response, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott deployed state troopers and a special tactical unit of the National Guard to defend the river’s edge….