From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. I don't know if we're walking or flying, but either one is okay with me.

We're going to see a lot.

Earlier in the week, Trump reportedly dismissed his trip to the border city of McAllen, Texas, as a photo op, that he was doing only because his team advised him to.

Certainly, this latest national press event isn't the first McAllen has hosted.

In fact, the city of 140,000 has become something of a border backdrop for political fact-finding missions.

On a surprise trip to McAllen, Texas, First Lady Melania Trump visited the front lines in her

husband's battle over illegal immigration.

In McAllen, Texas, a group of Democratic legislators visited several facilities that hold children.

I was on the border this weekend down in McAllen.

I sat down with the chief of the border patrol.

Chaos on the southern border.

We're here in McAllen, Texas, getting a first-hand look at just how bad things have now deteriorated on the border.

That was Sean Hannity, visiting with then Governor Rick Perry in 2014,

when McAllen first entered the national consciousness around immigration.

It was then that nearly 70,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended at the border, a 77% increase

over 2013. Most of the crossings were in the Rio Grande Valley, so it put McCallon on the map as detention facilities overflowed.

I look at those images, and they are very disturbing.

Then Secretary of Homeland Security, Jay Johnson.

One of the things that's remarkable about McAllen, Texas, which is sort of at the center of all of this, the community there has been remarkable.

Rick Perry and other Republicans called on President Obama to go see the horrors for himself.

He declined.

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