In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 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. … [Read More...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
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Securing America’s Borders
What Biden Does Next Will Determine Whether a Mass Seaborne Migration Crisis Develops with Haitians
By Todd Bensman as published March 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies What the administration of President Joe Biden does next will determine if the collapse and total failure of Haiti — a status now accurately assigned to the Caribbean Island nation — sets off a marine mass migration crisis for the United States in … [Read more...] about What Biden Does Next Will Determine Whether a Mass Seaborne Migration Crisis Develops with Haitians
Terrorism and Homeland Security
NY Post: China likely exploiting Biden’s lax border policies — imperiling US security
By Todd Bensman as published February 25, 2024 by The New York Post AUSTIN, Texas — In the Trump administration’s final three years, a dedicated FBI effort, the China Initiative, nabbed dozens of Chinese Communist Party spies who, posing as scholars, relieved top American research institutions and their naïve professors of … [Read more...] about NY Post: China likely exploiting Biden’s lax border policies — imperiling US security
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
From November 22 through December 22 of 2023, Bensman traveled extensively throughout Central Europe and the Balkan nations as a Visiting Fellow for the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium's' Migration Research Institute. He traveled to Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Greece. The reason? Big human traffic is swelling again on the so-called "Balkan … [Read more...] about Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
Border Wars Video Podcast Features Bensman in In-Depth Interview
"Todd takes us through his twenty-plus years of experience" Joseph Humire, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society came to Austin, Texas to interview me for his smash hit "Border Wars" Video Podcast. His description: "The unprecedented crisis on America's southern border has enormous ramifications for U.S. national security. None more urgent than the significant rise of … [Read more...] about Border Wars Video Podcast Features Bensman in In-Depth Interview