From September 15-24, I covered the Del Rio migrant camp crisis on both the Texas and Mexico sides of the Rio Grande. During this period and after, a wide range of media interviewers came calling. Following is a representative collection during the latter half of September 2015 for researchers interested in understanding the events in Del Rio, Texas and in Mexico, although the interviews actually … [Read more...] about The Del Rio Migrant Camp Crisis Collection: Interviews from the field
Bensman in the News
On Newsmax’s National Report: Calling Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia on the Carpet for Official Migrant Smuggling to US
Bensman:"Bottom line is that the American people need to understand that Panama - as in the government of Panama - IS the smuggler. They are officially moving people by bus to the American border. The Costa Rican government is doing the same. They are officially complicit in moving those 60 to 80 thousand people right on through, and so is the government of Colombia. The fix to that is to have … [Read more...] about On Newsmax’s National Report: Calling Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia on the Carpet for Official Migrant Smuggling to US
On the Glenn Beck Show: Truth Behind the Del Rio Migrant Camp
On Beck’s radio show, Todd Bensman senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, joined Glenn Beck on the radio program to share the new information he’s gathered after spending time with the thousands of Haitians who arrived at our southern border earlier this month. Bensman explained how the Haitian migrants got to Del Rio, Texas, where they actually came from, and … [Read more...] about On the Glenn Beck Show: Truth Behind the Del Rio Migrant Camp
On Newsmax’s Joe Pinion Show about Yuma, Arizona border crisis hotspot and causes
The Live Drop Podcast: A Discussion of America’s Covert Border War Book
Episode notes Back in April 2021, Todd Bensman talked with me about the nexus between immigration and national security in his book America’s Covert Border War: the Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. Todd is an award-winning journalist who transitioned to a career as a national security intelligence professional for the Texas Department of Public … [Read more...] about The Live Drop Podcast: A Discussion of America’s Covert Border War Book
On Sputnik Radio Podcast The Back Story, Talking Haitians, Yuma Border Sector in Crisis and more
In the second hour, former CIA officer John Kiriakou spoke with Todd Bensman on the security threats at the border, Haitian migrants from South America, and the New York Times warning of another border surge. Todd spoke on his experience at the Del Rio border and his conversations with the Haitian migrants. Todd talked about the Yuma, Arizona border and the reports of seventy thousand migrants … [Read more...] about On Sputnik Radio Podcast The Back Story, Talking Haitians, Yuma Border Sector in Crisis and more
