Special Note to readers: On June 2, 2025, I took my oath to protect and defend the United States and began serving as a senior adviser/White House Administration assigned to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Director, where I'll be serving leadership, including Border Czar Tom Homan, as needed. This obviously means I've also left the great Center for Immigration Studies after nearly seven very productive and interesting years … [Read More...] about Bensman Departs Center for Immigration Studies and joins Trump Administration as Senior Adviser: THE EXIT INTERVIEW
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Securing America’s Borders
Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
See Todd Bensman's: Front Line Field Reports, 2021-2025, from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History The Greatest Mass Migration Crisis in US History is Over I declare its end not as a government official empowered with any special authority to do so, but as someone who accurately foretold the … [Read more...] about Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
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
Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
See Todd Bensman's: Front Line Field Reports, 2021-2025, from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History The Greatest Mass Migration Crisis in US History is Over I declare its end not as a government official empowered with any special authority to do so, but as someone who accurately foretold the coming crisis before it began in 2020 and 2021 and then, … [Read more...] about Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025