Todd Bensman

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Review of America’s Covert Border War book (Townhall Media)

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A Look at America's Covert Border War By Leah Barkoukas, features editor, as originally published March 12, 2021 by TownHall While former President Trump had a knack for whipping the press into a frenzy no matter what he seemed to say, one issue he touched on in 2018 brought about a tsunami of criticism unlike most others. What had he dared bring attention to this time? He suggested, … [Read more...] about Review of America’s Covert Border War book (Townhall Media)

On The Dana (Loesch) Show Discussing the Biden Border Crisis

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"The thing to do is believe what you're eyes are telling you and not what you're hearing. That's the order of business for the border. There is a massive crisis on the border. We're going to only see that gather steam. It's going to get a lot worse before it ever gets better. It could be that it grows to historic proportions for the United States, that we've never seen quite as big a tsunami as … [Read more...] about On The Dana (Loesch) Show Discussing the Biden Border Crisis

On Secure Freedom Radio Discussing Biden Border Crisis

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Listen to the March 13, 2021 show Excerpt of Bensman comments from the show: "The numbers are in, so last month – February - 100,000 migrants were apprehended at the southern border, which puts us soundly in crisis mode on the order of 2019. That’s just the apprehended migrants. There are probably thousands and thousands more who were runners, who did not get caught, who are moving into the … [Read more...] about On Secure Freedom Radio Discussing Biden Border Crisis

On with WOWO Radio’s Pat Miller Discussing Biden Border Crisis

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Listen to the March 12, 2021 show below Excerpt from the Bensman interview: "For the most part, they're waving the migrants right through the turnstile. You can see video of large groups, five people abreast in lines that go back endlessly into the horizon, and they're just methodically boating them over the Rio Grande right in front of Border Patrol, with the smugglers wearing the masks … [Read more...] about On with WOWO Radio’s Pat Miller Discussing Biden Border Crisis

In the War Room with Steve Bannon Discussing Europe’s Jihadist Border Infiltration Epidemic

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WATCH THE SHOW Excerpt, Todd Bensman: "Last Thursday, there was a terror attack in Sweden, an Afghan migrant who pulled a knife and went on another one of these slashing sprees. And this is just another one in a very, very long, six-year long trail of jihadist attacks by migrants who infiltrated over the EU’s external common borders. We saw this first with the Paris attacks of November 2014 … [Read more...] about In the War Room with Steve Bannon Discussing Europe’s Jihadist Border Infiltration Epidemic

On Washington DC’s WMAL, The Larry O’Connor Show

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Here's the March 10 Show Bensman excerpts: "The main issue with national security is that, when you have opened your borders by removing most of the obstruction and then eliminate the possibility of deportation once you're in, that's the meat and potatoes of open borders, right? So the information of that spreads very rapidly throughout the galaxy of aspiring migrants. I've never met a … [Read more...] about On Washington DC’s WMAL, The Larry O’Connor Show

On Securing America TV Discussing Europe’s Jihadist Infiltration Epidemic and Parallels with US Southern Border

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WATCH THE TWO MARCH 8, 2021 Securing America TV segments Here Bensman excerpts: "What you’re seeing there in Tijuana are a lot of Spanish-speaking people, Latinos from Central America and Mexico. But further to the south, there are large numbers flowing through South America and through Panama from all over the world, many, many countries of Africa. We’re talking about Pakistan and South … [Read more...] about On Securing America TV Discussing Europe’s Jihadist Infiltration Epidemic and Parallels with US Southern Border

On The Catholic Current Discussing America’s Covert Border War and Biden Border Crisis

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Father McTeague interviews Bensman at length in February 2021. Listen to it here. Bensman quote excerpt: "We all know that the 911 hijackers did not cross any borders; they all got legal visas and went through legal processes. They used fraud. They gamed the systems. But they ultimately flew airport to airport, got a plane somewhere in Europe or the Middle East and ended up at an airport in … [Read more...] about On The Catholic Current Discussing America’s Covert Border War and Biden Border Crisis

On The National Pulse Podcast with Raheem Kassam Discussing Bensman Book and Europe’s Terror Attacks

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Raheem Kassam and Todd Bensman discuss one of the lesser known threats at the U.S. southern border: radical Islamic terrorism and Bensman's new book Listen to the March 9, 2021 national podcast here "Every year there are between three and four thousand migrants who reach the US southern border from all of those countries... Muslim-majority countries in North Africa, South Asia and the Middle … [Read more...] about On The National Pulse Podcast with Raheem Kassam Discussing Bensman Book and Europe’s Terror Attacks