In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Todd Bensman explores the causes and consequences of the mass-migration crisis he predicted in a November 2020 column titled "Will We See a 'Biden Effect' at the Border?" The crisis began several months before the national presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet that Joe Biden would win and open the border to them. … [Read More...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
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Securing America’s Borders
A Secret Finally Revealed: Americans Can Know the U.S. Cities Receiving Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants Flying from Abroad
A House committee data release confirms a CIS report, and offers additional information By Todd Bensman as published May 1, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — The Big Secret is finally vanquished. Americans can now know the locations of 45 U.S. cities whose domestic airports have … [Read more...] about A Secret Finally Revealed: Americans Can Know the U.S. Cities Receiving Hundreds of Thousands of Immigrants Flying from Abroad
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Why Biden’s Gaza refugee plan is a hard hell no
By Todd Bensman as published May 7 by The New York Post As President Biden considers bringing Gaza war refugees into the United States, he would do well to recall what happened when other good-hearted people took a similar chance – and paid with their blood. Before the October 7 Hamas attack, Israeli citizens … [Read more...] about Why Biden’s Gaza refugee plan is a hard hell no
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
From November 22 through December 22 of 2023, Bensman traveled extensively throughout Central Europe and the Balkan nations as a Visiting Fellow for the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium's' Migration Research Institute. He traveled to Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Greece. The reason? Big human traffic is swelling again on the so-called "Balkan … [Read more...] about Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
Border Wars Video Podcast Features Bensman in In-Depth Interview
"Todd takes us through his twenty-plus years of experience" Joseph Humire, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society came to Austin, Texas to interview me for his smash hit "Border Wars" Video Podcast. His description: "The unprecedented crisis on America's southern border has enormous ramifications for U.S. national security. None more urgent than the significant rise of … [Read more...] about Border Wars Video Podcast Features Bensman in In-Depth Interview