Special Note to readers: On June 2, 2025, I took my oath to protect and defend the United States and began serving as a senior adviser/White House Administration assigned to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where I'll be serving the Border Czar and other senior Department of Homeland Security leadership as needed. This obviously means I've also left the great Center for Immigration Studies after nearly seven very productive and … [Read More...] about Bensman Departs Center Immigration Studies and joins Trump Administration as Senior Adviser: THE EXIT INTERVIEW
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Securing America’s Borders
The Missing Argument for Sending Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Demonstrators Packing
A comparison with Jane Fonda helps explain why Mahmoud Khalil and others like him must go. By Todd Bensman as published May 15 by The American Mind President Donald Trump’s Administration has mostly defended its efforts to deport visa-holding foreign students on the grounds that the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) … [Read more...] about The Missing Argument for Sending Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Demonstrators Packing
Terrorism and Homeland Security
NY Post: FBI finally investigating terror attack against Jews by illegal border crosser
By Todd Bensman as published May 7, 2025 by The New York Post Nearly seven months have elapsed since an illegal immigrant from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania shot and wounded a visibly Orthodox Jewish man in the Chicago terror attack on October 26, then engaged police in a furious firefight while screaming the terrorist war … [Read more...] about NY Post: FBI finally investigating terror attack against Jews by illegal border crosser
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
See Todd Bensman's: Front Line Field Reports, 2021-2025, from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History The Greatest Mass Migration Crisis in US History is Over I declare its end not as a government official empowered with any special authority to do so, but as someone who accurately foretold the coming crisis before it began in 2020 and 2021 and then, … [Read more...] about Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
Washington, D.C. (January 9, 2025) – Todd Bensman's new three-part investigative series, along with a companion podcast (his media interviews and full stories here), document the first known charged terror attack in the United States committed by an illegal border-crosser, on October 26, 2024 in Chicago. The series, titled “First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack,” includes … [Read more...] about ‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community