Securing America's Borders

A comparison with Jane Fonda helps explain why Mahmoud Khalil and others like him must go. By Todd Bensman as published May 15 by The American Mind President Donald Trump’s Administration has mostly defended its efforts to deport visa-holding foreign students on the grounds that the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows deportation of those whose actions might have “adverse foreign … [Read more...] about The Missing Argument for Sending Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Demonstrators Packing

No one made a peep when Obama and Biden deported millions of illegal aliens who also merely worked hard, paid taxes, and stayed out of prison. By Todd Bensman as published May 8, 2025 by The Federalist It's going to happen as sure as the sun will rise: Once Congress approves a “big, beautiful bill,” the Trump administration will supercharge its "mass deportation" plans far beyond mostly … [Read more...] about The Federalist: Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners?

By Todd Bensman as published April 28, 2025 by The New York Post Last year around this time, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party and liberal commentators insisted the only thing that would fix the greatest border crisis in American history was a special Senate bill, or “comprehensive immigration reform,” or fixing the “root causes.” There was nothing else … [Read more...] about NY Post: Trump’s Signature 100-Day Achievement: Border Crisis End

In resurrecting a policy that Biden killed, illegal aliens face long, deterring federal prison sentences before deportation By Todd Bensman as published April 9, 2025 by The Daily Wire DEL RIO, Texas – Nine illegal aliens from Central America and Mexico, including one from Poland, filed together into a federal courtroom in this border town one recent April day to face an unpleasant new … [Read more...] about The Daily Wire: Prison First, Deportation Later: Trump Revives Criminal Penalties For Border Jumpers

What happened to one Texas segment when the White House changed hands By Todd Bensman as published April 3, 2025 by The American Mind (A modified version by the Center for Immigration Studies) JUAREZ, Mexico – On New Year’s Eve 2020, as President-elect Joe Biden was at home in Delaware celebrating his imminent move into the White House, a mob of some 300 Cubans stormed out of Juárez, … [Read more...] about Then and Now at the Southern Border

By Todd Bensman as published April 1, 2025 by The Daily Wire AUSTIN, Texas – It’s early but not too early to note that President Donald Trump’s all-out World War on cross-border smuggling into the United States of fentanyl, the highly lethal synthetic opiate responsible for 120,000 American overdose deaths in recent years, is achieving remarkable impacts for the first time in a decade. A … [Read more...] about First Good Battlefield News From Trump’s Global War on Fentanyl

A new Center for Immigration Studies video report provides exclusive footage from the El Paso sector of the U.S. southern border, highlighting a newly constructed road that is enhancing border security. Todd Bensman, the Center’s national security fellow, joins Border Patrol agents to examine Bulldozer Trail, a critical new road cutting through previously inaccessible, rugged terrain. … [Read more...] about VIDEO: Bulldozer Trail: Border Patrol’s New Anti-smuggling Road

By Todd Bensman as published March 20, 2025 by The Daily Wire JUAREZ, Mexico – “Hit the gas!” I barked at my translator behind the wheel of our rental car. “Let’s get the f*** out of here!” We tore off, leaving the reflections of two cartel gunmen, a shiny handgun in the waistband on one, shrinking in our rearview mirror. The confrontation happened one year ago on the Juarez, Mexico side of … [Read more...] about The Daily Wire: Even the “Got-aways” – the Most Dangerous Immigrant Traffic – Are Sharply Down at New Trump Border

Summary Fieldwork undertaken by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals a border now under control, offering clear evidence that the border crisis was never an unstoppable force but rather the result of policy decisions. Last week the Center sent analysts to the Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector and across the border to Tijuana, and to the El Paso Sector and across the border to Juarez. … [Read more...] about U.S.-Mexico Border Transformed Under Trump’s Policies, Bensman discusses recent border trip on Parsing Immigration Policy podcast

The Center for Immigration Studies' national security fellow, Todd Bensman, documents that Texas has shifted troopers and other state police personnel from its $11 billion "Operation Lone Star" off of the 1,254 miles of the Rio Grande River for the first time in four years. This move comes as illegal border crossings reach historic lows under President Donald Trump's new policies. Texas … [Read more...] about VIDEO REPORT: With Border Crisis Over, Texas Redeploys ‘Operation Lone Star’ Forces From Rio Grande