On Inauguration Day 2025, President Donald Trump began signing a rack of executive orders establishing the highest, more pressing policy priorities of his young second administration, immigration and border security topping the list with 10 initial orders. Most of the executive orders attracted much media attention and analysis. But one of the most interesting and consequential of the orders attracted little to no attention, the action-packed one … [Read More...] about Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order, a 3-Part Analysis of the Most Interesting of Trump’s Executive Orders
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Securing America’s Borders
American Guns are Not to Blame for Mexico’s Cartel Problem
Mexico’s demand to suppress U.S. gun trafficking is unmoored from facts By Todd Bensman AUSTIN, Texas – President Trump’s recent deal with Mexico has Mexico deploying 10,000 troops to the border. But America’s commitments in agreement have gone insufficiently examined. “For the first time, the U.S. government will … [Read more...] about American Guns are Not to Blame for Mexico’s Cartel Problem
Terrorism and Homeland Security
‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
Washington, D.C. (January 9, 2025) – Todd Bensman's new three-part investigative series, along with a companion podcast (his media interviews and full stories here), document the first known charged terror attack in the United States committed by an illegal border-crosser, on October 26, 2024 in Chicago. The series, titled “First … [Read more...] about ‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
Washington, D.C. (January 9, 2025) – Todd Bensman's new three-part investigative series, along with a companion podcast (his media interviews and full stories here), document the first known charged terror attack in the United States committed by an illegal border-crosser, on October 26, 2024 in Chicago. The series, titled “First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack,” includes … [Read more...] about ‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
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, consequences, and experience 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 2020 presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet … [Read more...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History