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
Biden Government Opens Migrant ‘Superhighway’ Bringing World to Texas Faster and Easier than Ever
Biden Diplomacy shortens the infamous Darien Gap passage and new fast-pass Mexican visas By Todd Bensman AUSTIN, Texas – Following months of Biden administration shuttle diplomacy, multinational U.S.-bound immigrants from more than 150 countries are now finding international routes to the southern border faster, easier and less … [Read more...] about Biden Government Opens Migrant ‘Superhighway’ Bringing World to Texas Faster and Easier than Ever
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Posthill Press/Bombardier Books Contracts Todd Bensman for Second Border Book
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 tentatively titled new book, OVERRUN: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in … [Read more...] about Posthill Press/Bombardier Books Contracts Todd Bensman for Second Border 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 rife … [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”