During a mid-February visit to the Texas-Mexico border, Bensman gained exclusive, rare access to the improvised migrant detention camp in Piedras Negras and also toured the American law enforcement defense arrayed on the other side against a potential mass entry into Texas. In the end, he found, it is the migrants who will get everything they wanted. Originally published by the Center for Immigration Studies February 19, 2019. All photos by Todd … [Read More...] about Inside Mexico’s Migrant Caravan Shelter near the Texas Rio Grande Border
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Securing America’s Borders
A Terror Case the Travel Ban Would Have Prevented
By Todd Bensman on February 12, 2019 The national flag of Somalia A federal judge in California has kept the life-support systems hooked up to a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration's "travel ban" from eight countries. The February 4 ruling allowing the suit to advance in the Northern … [Read more...] about A Terror Case the Travel Ban Would Have Prevented
Terrorism and Homeland Security
What Happened to the Texan Who Became the Goebbels of ISIS?
By Todd Bensman, originally published January 21, 2019 in PJ Media A few years ago, a Texas resident who was born, raised, and educated in my state of Texas -- and whose parents, ex-wife, and four children still reside here -- reportedly became the chief propagandist for ISIS in Syria. John Thomas Georgelas, son of a prosperous … [Read more...] about What Happened to the Texan Who Became the Goebbels of ISIS?
Exclusive Report: A Promised Panama Investigation of Iran-Hezbollah for ’94 Plane Bombing Likely Suppressed
On a reporting trip to Panama in December 2018, Bensman checked up on a promised investigation of Iranian-Hezbollah involvement in the 1994 bombing of Las Chiricanas Flight 901, which killed 12 Panamanian Jews. He came home with strong doubts that any such investigation was happening. As published in The Federalist January 23, 2019 By Todd … [Read more...] about Exclusive Report: A Promised Panama Investigation of Iran-Hezbollah for ’94 Plane Bombing Likely Suppressed