New York Times reporter Ken Bensinger covers “right-wing media and national campaigns,” and the hostility and clear revulsion he felt toward right-wing figures, and credulity toward the story of every single migrant he encountered, is evident in every word of “How the Right Shapes the Immigration Debate from Panama,” his long expose that led Thursday’s paper.
Online, the headline was “Chasing Clicks in the Jungle: Right-Wing Influencers Descend on the Darién Gap” Descend! Bensinger’s story began:
Ayub Ibrahim had just walked out of the jungle. His feet still ached. A month earlier, he had left his home in Somalia, fleeing a civil war, he said, traveling first to Turkey, then Brazil and finally crossing on foot through a 66-mile expanse of wilderness known as the Darién Gap.
Resting in the sweltering San Vicente migrant camp in Panama with…
