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NOW AVAILABLE: “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”

Published June 7, 2020

The book by journalist Todd Bensman, AMERICA’S COVERT BORDER WAR, is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and, as they say: wherever books are sold. This 13-year work of journalism explores one of the most politically powerful and nationally contentious threat notions to ever have arisen about the American southern border: that Islamic jihadists might steal over it through Mexico and harm the nation. No border problem incites … [Read More...] about NOW AVAILABLE: “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”

Securing America’s Borders

Amid Border Crisis, U.S. Government Strikes at Pakistani Smuggler of ‘National Security Risk’ Migrants

Published April 14, 2021

The recent government enforcement moves against the Abid Ali Khan human smuggling network represent the latest salvo in an ongoing U.S. homeland security effort to combat jihadist border infiltration. The actions occur as a mass migration crisis at the border threats to collapse normal border control systems and escalate this … [Read more...] about Amid Border Crisis, U.S. Government Strikes at Pakistani Smuggler of ‘National Security Risk’ Migrants

Catch-and-Bus: Thousands of Freed Border-Crossing Immigrants are Dispersing Across America

Published March 31, 2021

How Illegal Immigrants Are End-Running Mexico’s Vaunted National Guard Cordon

Published March 30, 2021

America’s Covert Border War, A Panel Discussion Center for a Secure Free Society

Published March 27, 2021

Landmark Confirmation of Border Terror Threat

Published March 20, 2021

Europe’s Migrant Crisis, Still Yielding Terror, Foretells The Effects Of Biden’s Border-Crossing Boom.

Published March 9, 2021

‘Extra-Continental’ Migrants Throughout the Americas Marching and Clashing Their Way Toward New Biden Border

Published March 2, 2021

Securing American's Borders Archives

Terrorism and Homeland Security

CBP Removes Press Release About Migrants on the U.S. Terror Watch List Who Crossed the Southern Border

Published April 7, 2021

A broader public understanding of just how often terrorist suspects like these Yemenis cross has become especially pertinent as the government's border management systems teeter under historic, sharply escalating numbers of largely Spanish-speaking peoples making illegal entry. So what can be truthfully said of this contentious … [Read more...] about CBP Removes Press Release About Migrants on the U.S. Terror Watch List Who Crossed the Southern Border

Spooks on the Rio: US Spy Agencies’ Little Known Homeland Security Role

Published April 5, 2021

Book Review in The Federalist

Published April 1, 2021

The Afrasiabi Affair: Media Outlets Silent About Publishing Alleged Covert Iranian Agent

Published March 16, 2021

Review of America’s Covert Border War book (Townhall Media)

Published March 16, 2021

Homeland Security Today PERSPECTIVE: ‘Extra-Continental’ Migrants Throughout Americas on Their Way Toward Southern Border

Published March 10, 2021

Overwhelmed Mexican Alien-Smuggling Cartels Use Wristband System to Bring Order to Business

Published March 3, 2021

Terrorism and Homeland Security Archives

Dispatches from America’s Other Southern Border: Guatemala-Mexico

Published January 21, 2020

Implementation of President Donald Trump's cocktail of policies took time, with U.S. court challenges, trial and error, and planning necessities. But by the fall of 2019, the historic numbers of Central Americans crossing the U.S. border, to the tune of 100,000 a month — 144,000 in May 2019 alone — had plummeted to (still-high) pre-crisis levels. Understanding why is key to blunting future … [Read more...] about Dispatches from America’s Other Southern Border: Guatemala-Mexico

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Bensman in the News

On One America News Discussing Mexico’s Failing Troop Deployment

On with Stacy on the Right (Stacy Washington) Talking Biden Border Crisis

On Newell Norman Show, WWL Radio New Orleans, About Biden Deal for Mexican Troops

On Fox and Friends Discussing Biden Border Crisis

On with Gary Jeff Walker of WLW Radio Cincinnati Discussing Mexican Troop Deployment

On the John Fredericks Show Discussing Biden Pick for CBP Commissioner, Chris Magnus

On WCBM Radio Maryland About the Biden Border Crisis

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Permanent Collections

  • Covid Jumps the Mexico Border
  • America’s Security Vetting Failures
  • America’s Other Southern Border: Guatemala-Mexico
  • Out of Panama and Costa Rica: Terror Travel Threat Investigation
  • Lessons of Europe’s Terrorist Border Infiltration Epidemic
  • Reports from Hungary’s Fenced Borderlands
  • Out of Mexico, Reporting from 2018 to present
  • Hezbollah’s ‘Unit 910’ in America
  • America’s Covert Border War Book
  • Counterterrorism After 9/11
  • Migration from the Islamic World
  • Mexico’s Civil Drug War
  • Magazine Work
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  • Out of Africa

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What Terrorist Migration Over European Borders Can Teach About American Border Security

The Center for Immigration Studies published the results of a yearlong study of migrants who crossed Europe’s external borders and conducted attacks or who were arrested and killed committing terrorism crimes. This paper quantifies for the first time how many border-crossing migrants attacked in Europe and analyzes consequences for U.S. border security, among them: a moderate, high-consequence threat of similar infiltration. This study was … [Read More...] about What Terrorist Migration Over European Borders Can Teach About American Border Security

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