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Dispatches from a Border in Crisis

Published September 25, 2021

In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021 and for 2022, 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 Biden would win and open the border to them. That's just … [Read More...] about Dispatches from a Border in Crisis

Securing America’s Borders

Migrant Caravan Runs Face-First Into Texas Governor Greg Abbott

Published June 16, 2022

Source: Texas governor’s April bridge closure agreement with Mexican governor has triggered major operation to head off migrant caravan By Todd Bensman as published June 15, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — When Mexico last week granted federal humanitarian travel permits to 15,000 … [Read more...] about Migrant Caravan Runs Face-First Into Texas Governor Greg Abbott

Border Conveyor Belt Continues Delivering Border-Crossing Immigrants to Interior America

Published June 1, 2022

About the Iraqi Asylum Seeker Who Allegedly Tried to Smuggle an ISIS Terrorist Hit Squad Over the Mexican Border

Published May 30, 2022

U.S. Government Now Publishing Terrorist Watch List Encounters at American Land Borders

Published April 27, 2022

About those 42 Terrorists Who Crossed the American Southern Border

Published April 27, 2022

Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast: Mexican Border States Cry ‘Uncle’, Cut Immigration Deals with Texas

Published April 25, 2022

Texas Governor’s Unprecedented Trade Disruption Strategy Yields First Fruit

Published April 14, 2022

Securing American's Borders Archives

Terrorism and Homeland Security

Posthill Press/Bombardier Books Contracts Todd Bensman to Write Second Border Book

Published April 8, 2022

Following the success of America’s Covert Border War, The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, Posthill Press’s Bombardier Books imprint has contracted author Todd Bensman to write a second book. The tentatively titled new book, OVERRUN: How Democratic Party Extremists Unleashed the Worst Border … [Read more...] about Posthill Press/Bombardier Books Contracts Todd Bensman to Write Second Border Book

Todd Bensman: Middle East Forum Webinar – National Security Threat at the Texas Border

Published March 27, 2022

Bensman Testifies before the House Freedom Caucus on the Mass Migration Crisis at the Southern Border February 1, 2022

Published February 2, 2022

At the Border with Todd Bensman, an in-depth interview

Published October 30, 2021

The Live Drop Podcast: A Discussion of America’s Covert Border War Book

Published October 8, 2021

Homeland Security Today Commemoration Series: State of Border Counterterrorism, Challenges Threaten Security Successes

Published October 4, 2021

For The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Selective Media Memory: The Carefully Excised “WHY” of the 9/11 Attacks

Published September 14, 2021

Terrorism and Homeland Security Archives

A United Nations of Mass Migration: Dispatches from the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border 2021

Published July 2, 2021

The intercontinental trail connecting the world to the U.S. border is more congested than at any time in recent memory, with people from Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Burkina Faso, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and other countries. The significance of this “extra-continental” flow is that it ferries peoples from nations where violent Islamic extremism is rampant, as well as from African nations … [Read more...] about A United Nations of Mass Migration: Dispatches from the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border 2021

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 … [Read more...] about NOW AVAILABLE: “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”

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Bensman in the News

Bensman in the War Room: Where is Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and ‘703,000 Got-Aways Have Penetrated The US Since Inauguration Day’

Todd Bensman on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Pushing to Stop Migrants

NDT News: Nonprofit Assisting Illegal Immigrants

On NDT: Mexico Doles Out Visas to Illegal Immigrants to Avoid Media Attention of Big Caravan

In the War Room: Biden Exemptions Have ‘Incited’ Migrant Caravans;

Bensman In the War Room: Mexico Engages in ‘Optics Operations’ with Caravans; Why They Go to Del Rio

The Washington Outsider interview with Todd Bensman: National Security at Border

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

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 unwanted population transfers. Video Report: How … [Read More...] about Dispatches from America’s Other Southern Border: Guatemala-Mexico

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