CBS’s Norah O’Donnell was apparently so struck by how uninteresting the Texas migrant detention facilities are that she had to drum up a lie about them just to make her visit worthwhile.

O’Donnell and her CBS Evening News camera crew toured one of the family detention centers on Wednesday and they saw the exact same things I saw when I went for my own tour last week: children and families that look a little restless but are otherwise treated with exceptional care, provided with food, clothing, and hygienic supplies.

To sex up that mundane observation, O’Donnell said things like, “We had exclusive access to this facility” and, “This is not like anything I’ve ever seen before.”

That’s fine, because that’s how TV news works, but then she said it was “extraordinary to see mothers and their children sleeping together on the floor.” That was a lie, demonstrated by what viewers could see for themselves right their on the screen — mattresses!

O’Donnell even asked one of the migrants, “But you’re sleeping on the floor?” The migrant replied, “On these mats.”

I saw the exact same mattresses when I was in El Paso. True, they’re not Casper Memory Foams on four-post beds, but $4.5 billion only goes so far when it comes to accommodating 700,000 illegal immigrants in less than a year. And let's not forget that liberals moved to boycott a company for agreeing to sell more mattresses to the government for the explicit purpose of making sure illegal immigrants weren't sleeping on the floor.

At one point during her tour, O’Donnell says to acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, “You realize this [news coverage] may cause more criticism of what’s going on here?” What a dire warning for what was, all in all, a pretty positive story on the facilities.

The illegal immigrants staying there should be asked to leave Yelp reviews once they’re inevitably released in to the U.S. When O’Donnell asked one of them if she was receiving warm food, she replied, “Yes, everything is excellent. Everything, everything.”

It’s true. The Trump administration is all but asking for more illegal immigrants right now. They come in and are taken to a detention center for a short while. Contractors bring in meals three times a day, migrants are given showering facilities and their clothing is laundered by yet more contractors. And then, by and large, they’re turned loose.

The detention centers aren’t that interesting. They’re a distraction from the real story: The hundreds of thousands of migrants overrunning the southern border.

Can we start talking about that again?