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
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Securing America’s Borders

U.S. Government Now Publishing Terrorist Watch List Encounters at American Land Borders
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By Todd Bensman as originally published April 27, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – Having covered the politically taboo threat issue of Islamic terrorist border crossings and even written a book about it, I have long had to contend with ungenerous government agencies that jealously guard all information … [Read more...] about U.S. Government Now Publishing Terrorist Watch List Encounters at American Land Borders
About those 42 Terrorists Who Crossed the American Southern Border
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Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast: Mexican Border States Cry ‘Uncle’, Cut Immigration Deals with Texas
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Texas Governor’s Unprecedented Trade Disruption Strategy Yields First Fruit
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Texas Hold-Em on Border Bridges
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One of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Ideas May Prove Impactful on Mexican Enforcement of Mass Migration
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A ‘Silent Mariel’ Airlift from Cuba Underway Just in Time for Massive Phase II of the Biden Border Crisis
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Terrorism and Homeland Security

Posthill Press/Bombardier Books Contracts Todd Bensman to Write Second Border Book
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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 as-yet untitled work will address the mass illegal migration border crisis triggered by the … [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
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Bensman Testifies before the House Freedom Caucus on the Mass Migration Crisis at the Southern Border February 1, 2022
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At the Border with Todd Bensman, an in-depth interview
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The Live Drop Podcast: A Discussion of America’s Covert Border War Book
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Homeland Security Today Commemoration Series: State of Border Counterterrorism, Challenges Threaten Security Successes
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For The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Selective Media Memory: The Carefully Excised “WHY” of the 9/11 Attacks
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A United Nations of Mass Migration: Dispatches from the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border 2021
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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”
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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”