Bensman: Nobody, nobody covered it. To this day, nobody's really covered that. I mean, there's all kinds of video but it's coming from conservative media, and therefore it's just discredited and nobody will use it. I videotape and record the migrants myself and it is up on my Twitter account--here's what they say; here's where they are.
Border Patrol agents now are literally working with the cartel pilots saying "how many do you got? "it is just bizarre.
Rosenberg: You mean the Border Patrol is not patrolling the border?
Bensman: Well, when there's a lot of people crossing the border and turning themselves it takes a lot of manpower. Paperwork, fingerprinting photographing. And then you got to bring in all the Border Patrol agents from that area. Sometimes even from further away to do the work. So no, they're just not on the line; they're not out there. They're in the central processing facilities.
Rosenberg: And this isn't news?
Bensman: Certainly reporters and their editors tend to be Democrats but they are ignoring what is the sexiest story on Earth right now and has been for two and a half years. It's got cops and robbers. It's got human drama, it's got drugs, it's got families with cute little kids.
Rosenberg: The omission is baffling. Illegal border crossers are so often portrayed as pathetic, penniless and fleeing violence. But in "Overrun" you write that neither the Haitians or the Venezuelans were in their own countries when they sought to cross the border.
Bensman: Yes, I just did a story about the Venezuelans that I've been meeting down there on the trail, who are all claiming humanitarian, protection and asylum but none of them have lived in Venezuela! They tell me they've been living in all these other countries happily and prosperously and I'm like, "Well, why are you applying for humanitarian protection?" And they say, "because we can."
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