Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. Central Station in McAllen, Tex., a city whose southern limit is defined in part by the Rio Grande, is unremarkable, as bus stations go: metal benches in the lobby, a Subway sandwich shop. But for journalists who cover immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, it’s an important spot. “That’s the place; if you want to go to talk to immigrants that were released from detention, that’s where you go,” said Manny Fernandez, who has been the Houston bureau chief for The New York Times since 2011. Throughout one day this month, four government-contracted buses dropped off the migrants, who then waited in line to go inside and were later escorted by volunteers for a Catholic charity to a relief center nearby.

Source: New York Times July 28, 2018 20:15 UTC