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 will reflect conditions in the El Paso, Big Bend and … [Read More...] about Dispatches from a Border in Crisis
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Securing America’s Borders
Amid Border Crisis, State Department Offers Rare Cash Rewards to Capture Fugitive Smuggler of Afghans to Southern Border
Biden Administration action suggests heightened urgency to reduce a terror travel threat at the border. The reward for Abid Ali Khan's capture comes amid an Afghanistan refugee crisis and national media reporting that historically large numbers of international migrants from around the world are on their way to the southern border … [Read more...] about Amid Border Crisis, State Department Offers Rare Cash Rewards to Capture Fugitive Smuggler of Afghans to Southern Border
Terrorism and Homeland Security
The Live Drop Podcast: A Discussion of America’s Covert Border War Book
Episode notes Back in April 2021, Todd Bensman talked with me about the nexus between immigration and national security in his book America’s Covert Border War: the Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. Todd is an award-winning journalist who transitioned to a career as a national … [Read more...] about The Live Drop Podcast: A Discussion of America’s Covert Border War Book
A United Nations of Mass Migration: Dispatches from the Costa Rica-Nicaragua Border 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”
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”