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 traveling first to Colombia's immigrant staging … [Read More...] about Bensman at The Darien Gap – Colombia/Panama
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Securing America’s Borders
VIDEO Report from Colombia: A Cartel, UN, and NGOs Fuel U.S. Border Crisis
By Todd Bensman as published October 2, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Go here to see all of Bensman's reporting from the Darien Gap A new Center for Immigration Studies video report uncovers one of the world’s most organized human smuggling operations. It operates out of a northwest Colombia village named Capurgana … [Read more...] about VIDEO Report from Colombia: A Cartel, UN, and NGOs Fuel U.S. Border Crisis
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Meanwhile at the Northern Border, a Border-Crossing Jihadist Attack in NYC Thwarted
Canadian mass immigration program is now a U.S. national security threat requiring a muscular diplomatic offensive By Todd Bensman as published October 1, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies. A modified version of this story was published by The New York Post By now, many Americans are aware of the elevated national … [Read more...] about Meanwhile at the Northern Border, a Border-Crossing Jihadist Attack in NYC Thwarted
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