See Bensman X Videos from the trail CIS analyst Todd Bensman completed field research August 6-18, 2024 about the Darien Gap immigration passageway through which more than 1.5 million foreign nationals have reached the U.S. southern border over the past three-plus years. At the link above, you can find X Tweets Bensman posted of video and photos from the ground. Here you can also find Bensman's published reports. Bensman's purpose for … [Read More...] about Bensman at The Darien Gap – Colombia/Panama
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Securing America’s Borders
Dispatch from Colombia: South American ally permits mass migration; Biden/Harris look away
By Todd Bensman as published September 13, 2024 by The American Mind The sensational media dispute over Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and the nitpicking over individual anecdotes from that town is obscuring a far more important reality. Whatever else we know, it is a documented fact that the Biden-Harris … [Read more...] about Dispatch from Colombia: South American ally permits mass migration; Biden/Harris look away
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Jewish Policy Center’s inFOCUS Quarterly, Summer 2024: Chronic Counterterrorism Lapses at the Border
By Todd Bensman as published summer 2024 by the Jewish Policy Center In the early morning hours of May 3, a Jordanian immigrant who illegally crossed the US-Mexico border a month earlier joined with another illegally present Jordanian. Together they drove a large box truck to the entry gates of Quantico Marine Corps Base in … [Read more...] about Jewish Policy Center’s inFOCUS Quarterly, Summer 2024: Chronic Counterterrorism Lapses at the Border
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
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 … [Read more...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
US House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigation, and Accountability: Security Risk, The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration
What: House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability hearing entitled, “Security Risk: The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration.” When: Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 2:00 PM ET Where: 310 Cannon House Office Building WITNESSES: Simon HankinsonSenior Research Fellow, Border Security and Immigration Center, The … [Read more...] about US House Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigation, and Accountability: Security Risk, The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration