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 Office of Director, where I'll be serving DHS leadership, including Border Czar Tom Homan. This obviously means I've also left the great Center for Immigration Studies after nearly … [Read more...] about Bensman Departs Center for Immigration Studies and joins Trump Administration as Senior Adviser: THE EXIT INTERVIEW
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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 was swelling again on the so-called "Balkan … [Read more...] about Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History 2021-2025
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, consequences, and experience 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 2020 presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet … [Read more...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History 2021-2025
Debunking The Argument For Columbia Journalism School’s Terrorist Propagandist Memorial
The United States' homeland security and military establishments prosecute, imprison, and kill by hellfire missile media propagandists exactly like those on Columbia Journalism School’s walls - wherever in the world and whenever possible - and would have surely killed many of these if given half a chance and Israel hadn't already done that grim necessary work. By Todd Bensman as published … [Read more...] about Debunking The Argument For Columbia Journalism School’s Terrorist Propagandist Memorial
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
Claremont Review of Books: Bensman’s OVERRUN
'No Borders, No Country': how Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history Bombardier Books, 432 pages, $33 cloth, $21 (paper) Link to Claremont Institute review of Bensman's book In Overrun: how Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history, Todd Bensman chronicles the scandalous disaster that Biden and the Democrats intentionally unleashed at … [Read more...] about Claremont Review of Books: Bensman’s OVERRUN
More than 100 migrants on terror watch lists caught at U.S. southern border or enroute 2012-2017 – New Center for Immigration Studies Report
On several occasions in October 2018, President Donald Trump and some administration officials suggested that migrants from Middle Eastern countries might have traveled among the thousands of Hondurans in a U.S.-bound column. Later, the president stated he had "very good information" that Middle Eastern migrants had been traveling through Latin America for a number of years, independently of … [Read more...] about More than 100 migrants on terror watch lists caught at U.S. southern border or enroute 2012-2017 – New Center for Immigration Studies Report
Dispatches from Army Tex-Mex Border Op Formerly Known as ‘Operation Faithful Patriot’
Photos and Video from Bensman's unauthorized visit with U.S. troops of the 19th Engineer Battalion deployed to the Texas-Mexico border Hidalgo, Texas – Unauthorized. That was pretty much the mark on my forehead as far as all the public information officers were concerned. On the morning of my second day to check in on the border military operation formerly known as Operation Faithful Patriot, … [Read more...] about Dispatches from Army Tex-Mex Border Op Formerly Known as ‘Operation Faithful Patriot’