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Overrun Book: The Trailer

Published January 11, 2023

Hits book stores nationwide February 21, 2023 Watch It. Feel It. (click photo below) PRE-ORDER AT AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE POST HILL PRESS 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 contracted author Todd Bensman to write OVERRUN: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in … [Read More...] about Overrun Book: The Trailer

Securing America’s Borders

Why Iranians in Smuggler Car Trunks at the Border is Never a Good Thing

Published February 3, 2023

By Todd Bensman (A modified version of this story was published by The New York Post) AUSTIN, Texas — A Fox News report that Texas state troopers caught an Iranian in the trunk of a smuggler’s car who was on the FBI’s terrorism watch list briefly diverted America’s attention to the border crisis, until the Department of Homeland … [Read more...] about Why Iranians in Smuggler Car Trunks at the Border is Never a Good Thing

The Empty Promise of ‘Rigorous Security Vetting’ in New Migrant Border-Crossing Program

Published January 27, 2023

Defund the UN Movement Rears Up Again in the Republican-Controlled House

Published January 27, 2023

In Newsweek: Biden’s Immigration Magic Trick | OpinionIn Newsweek:

Published January 26, 2023

The Daily Mail: TODD BENSMAN’s graphic dispatch from the Mexican ‘Beast’ trains ferrying thousands to America

Published January 19, 2023

Behind Those Iconic Fox News Drone Videos of Mass Migration: Now, the Disturbing Mexico Side of the Story

Published January 12, 2023

United Nations to Hand out Hundreds of Millions in Cash to U.S.-Bound Immigrants in 2023

Published January 11, 2023

Securing American's Borders Archives

Terrorism and Homeland Security

American Thought Leaders features Bensman

Published December 6, 2022

From Asylum Fraud to Mexican Ant Operations: Todd Bensman on Biden’s Migrant Advocacy Industrial Complex ​As aired December 3, 2022 by Epoch Times TV's Jan Jekielek​ SUBSCRIBE TO BENSMAN'S NEWSLETTER "These numbers are just beyond anything that we have ever seen before, and I don't think that the American public has … [Read more...] about American Thought Leaders features Bensman

Mexico’s 1st Muslim Immigrant Shelter: A National Security Perspective

Published November 30, 2022

Debut Newsweek Opinion: Record Number of Terrorists Crossed U.S.-Mex Border

Published October 28, 2022

Bensman Hosts Podcast: Enriched by US Immigration Policies, Cartels Go Global

Published October 6, 2022

Middle East Forum Webinar: Threat at Border

Published March 27, 2022

Bensman Testifies before House Freedom Caucus: Border Crisis

Published February 2, 2022

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

Published October 30, 2021

Terrorism and Homeland Security Archives

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, 2022, and for 2023, 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 … [Read more...] about Dispatches from a Border in Crisis

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 rife … [Read more...] about A United Nations of Mass Migration: Dispatches from the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border 2021

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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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