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 rife with war criminals and brutal tribal militia. … [Read More...] about A United Nations of Mass Migration: Dispatches from the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border 2021
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Securing America’s Borders
Townhall Media: Biden Administration Gives Assist to Jihadist Student Visa Holders
By Todd Bensman as originally published July 26 in Townhall Media Jihadist hate for Jews allegedly inspired 24-year-old Egyptian Khaled Awad on July 1 to viciously stab Boston area Rabbi Shlomo Noginski outside a Jewish day school. Suffolk County authorities were planning to charge the Egyptian chemical … [Read more...] about Townhall Media: Biden Administration Gives Assist to Jihadist Student Visa Holders
Terrorism and Homeland Security
The National Interest magazine: Joe Biden Just Condemned America to More Chinese Espionage — and Worse
By Todd Bensman as originally published July 19, 2021 by The National Interest For nearly two years now, the FBI has nabbed dozens of Chinese Communist Party spies who, while posing as graduate students and research scholars at top academic institutions, siphoned out America’s most cutting edge national defense material for untold … [Read more...] about The National Interest magazine: Joe Biden Just Condemned America to More Chinese Espionage — and Worse
Dispatches from a Border in Crisis
In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, Todd Bensman explores the causes and consequences of the mass-migration crisis that began in the run-up to the national presidential election, with anticipation among aspiring immigrants that Joe Biden would win, and which quickly escalated after he did. This ongoing series of stories from the border … [Read more...] about Dispatches from a Border in Crisis
NOW AVAILABLE: “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”
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”