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
Creative Destruction Media: One Afghan Military Interpreter Resettled in New Jersey Went Bad; Smuggled fellow Afghan ‘Security Risk’ over the Texas-Mexico Border
Case provides fair warning about the limits of U.S. security screening for Afghans By Todd Bensman as published September 15, 2021 by Creative Destruction Media With tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees in the pipeline for U.S. resettlement, the largely unreported federal prosecution of New Jersey resident Mujeeb Rahman Saify … [Read more...] about Creative Destruction Media: One Afghan Military Interpreter Resettled in New Jersey Went Bad; Smuggled fellow Afghan ‘Security Risk’ over the Texas-Mexico Border
Terrorism and Homeland Security
For The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Selective Media Memory: The Carefully Excised “WHY” of the 9/11 Attacks
American media won’t speak its name – “Islamist terrorism’ – but the historic 9/11 Commission Report does and always will “But the enemy is not just ‘terrorism,’ some generic evil. This vagueness blurs the strategy. The catastrophic threat at this moment in history is more specific. It is the threat posed by Islamist terrorism … [Read more...] about For The Investigative Project on Terrorism: Selective Media Memory: The Carefully Excised “WHY” of the 9/11 Attacks
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”