I am heading to the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border to document the massive surge of immigration from the rest of the world to the US southern border. For live Tweet updates from the field, follow @BensmanTodd Gaffney: I know you’re heading down to the Nicaragua and Costa Rica border to monitor the, it would seem infusion of what you call extra-continental immigrants entering illegally. Talk about … [Read more...] about Massive Surge of Extra-continental Migrants Flooding to US Border, plus: Texas Deploys Force to its Border, a Discussion on Secure Freedom Radio
Bensman in the News
A Candid Discussion about America’s Covert Border War, Long-Haul Extra-continental Smuggling on with Tripwires and Triggers Jaeson Jones
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An Hour About America’s Covert Border War on Global Patriot Radio’s Vito Esposito Show (with Big Al)
Todd Bensman of Center for Immigration Studies - Senior National Security Fellow and author of "America's Covert War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration", the untold story of a secret American Border program created to prevent terrorist infiltration over border with Mexico, a Counterterrorism Expert, joins Vito & AL to discuss the … [Read more...] about An Hour About America’s Covert Border War on Global Patriot Radio’s Vito Esposito Show (with Big Al)
On Secure Freedom TV about Yemeni terrorist border crossers and Kamala Harris visit to Guatemala
On Securing America TV with Frank Gaffney. Excerpts: Frank Gaffney: You have been following, assiduously, the problem of immigration both before the Biden-Harris administration turned up and made it vastly worse. I know you have been following the second of those two, Kamala Harris’s travels in Latin America, Central America, this past week. What did you make of her pursuit of the so-called … [Read more...] about On Secure Freedom TV about Yemeni terrorist border crossers and Kamala Harris visit to Guatemala
Discussing two Yemeni immigrant terror suspects who crossed the southern border: Sebastian Gorka’s America First Radio Show
Gorka: Todd, it’s like the story was memory hold weeks ago, about Yemenis crossing into America illegally, who are on the terror watch list. What happened to that story? Did it turn out to be a case of mistaken identity? Bensman: No, it turned out to be a real story. Yemenis crossed into California, got caught in Calexico, two different instances, two or three months apart. And the CPB … [Read more...] about Discussing two Yemeni immigrant terror suspects who crossed the southern border: Sebastian Gorka’s America First Radio Show
On Newsmax’s Carl Schmitt Tonight about two Yemeni terror suspects who crossed southern border
"You have to be a pretty bad apple to make it to the No Fly LIst. One of these two Yemenis was on the No Fly List before they ever got to the border.I should point out that these two Yemenis are just two of a great many people who are on the terror watch list who crossed that border over the last three, four, five years and were apprehended at the border or even in route, in Mexico, Panama, Costa … [Read more...] about On Newsmax’s Carl Schmitt Tonight about two Yemeni terror suspects who crossed southern border
On the (Paul) Sutliffian Report discussing the surge of “extra-continental” migrants from the Middle East
Bensman: Most of the migrants, the extra-continentals coming in through the Darien Gap, were people who had been living in peace, security and relative prosperity for years in South American countries - Chile, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, those kind of countries - because they knew they didn't have a chance when Trump was in office. So they just stayed where they were. Now they're just trading up. … [Read more...] about On the (Paul) Sutliffian Report discussing the surge of “extra-continental” migrants from the Middle East
Quoted at length in The Washington Times exclusive on human smuggling prices
EXCLUSIVE: Border surge sends prices soaring; smugglers can earn 200,000 By Stephen Dinan, June 8, 2021 Excerpts: And 2021 is turning into a boom year. Based on the number of migrants and the prices they are paying, smugglers are easily on track for their biggest profits in history. “Demand is so strong that the prices are going up,” said Todd Bensman, a fellow at the Center for … [Read more...] about Quoted at length in The Washington Times exclusive on human smuggling prices
All that matters are the selfies that successful border crossers take: On Ed Martin’s Pro America Report Discussing Border Crisis
Excerpt: Ed Martin: Kamala Harris' visit to Latin America... a lot of coverage of her goofy comment when she was asked about going to the border. She said she hasn't been to Europe either. Do you have a sense of her credibility in Latin America? Bensman: I think she comes across as typical Yankee gringo who is providing messaging at cross purposes. So like all through the campaign when she … [Read more...] about All that matters are the selfies that successful border crossers take: On Ed Martin’s Pro America Report Discussing Border Crisis
On Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz Discussing Unique Texas Initiative to Hammer Illegal Immigration
Excerpt: Daniel Horowitz: To actually show what is going on there, there is no better person to bring on than my old friend, Todd Bensman. Todd is the senior national security fellow at Center for Immigration Studies, a great outlet there. He’s also the author of a pretty new book, America’s Covert Border War. This is really about the jihadist infiltration at our border, which we’re going to … [Read more...] about On Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz Discussing Unique Texas Initiative to Hammer Illegal Immigration