Securing America's Borders

As published October 6 in The Daily Signal Last week saw much gnashing of teeth and rending of garments among American voters and Trump administration officials watching the “Fey Esperanza” migrant caravan march out of Honduras into Mexico, reportedly en route to smash a hole through President Donald Trump’s mostly sealed Southwest Border. But if this started as a rebel migrant caravan … [Read more...] about How to Know When a Mexican Migrant Caravan Really Threatens the Southern Border–a Day Sure to Come

El Salvador has launched a ‘Reverse Migration’ campaign with tax breaks to lure U.S. Salvadorans home to build a booming economy and fill acute labor shortages. By Todd Bensman as published September 24, 2026 in The Federalist Advocates of Salvadorans remaining in the United States must have felt relief recently when the Trump administration effectively stayed plans to terminate the … [Read more...] about Booming El Salvador Begs Its U.S. People To Return, But False Media Narratives Prevail About Their Deportation

A game changer in the administration’s shadow war. By Todd Bensman as published September 23, 2026 by The American Mind Amid the Iran War and midterm U.S. electioneering, most Americans probably missed a potentially game-changing shift in President Donald Trump’s war against Mexico’s drug cartels. The administration has pivoted to a consequential new tactic that, according to some Mexico … [Read more...] about Trump Attacks Cartels at the Root

By Todd Bensman as published by Homeland Security Today Few Americans know this, but for at least 15 years, the Sinaloa Cartel has orchestrated an unceasing reign of sophisticated train robbery terror on the California and Arizona side of the Mexican border. In these heists, armed crews of mostly illegal Mexican immigrants have looted many hundreds of millions of dollars in easily fenced … [Read more...] about About those Cartel Train Heists in the United States: Open Borders Lobbyists Are Blocking The Fix

The threat to American personnel in Latin America and what to do about In June 2025, an alarming allegation surfaced in European news outlets: that cartel “volunteers” from Mexico and Colombia had infiltrated the Ukrainian military – considered the world’s “drone superpower”  – to learn its dark arts of cutting-edge drone warfare so they could use the knowledge to kill their enemies back … [Read more...] about How the Drug Lords Learned Drone War in Ukraine

No one is calling out the Texas Democrat for using fake tough talk to mask intentions to restore Joe Biden’s disastrous open border. By Todd Bensman as published August 13, 2026 by The Federalist James Talarico, the left-wing Democrat ahead in some polls in the Texas U.S. Senate race against Republican Ken Paxton, has staked out a guiding border security policy idea that has puzzled many … [Read more...] about James Talarico’s Border Policies Would Spark Another Biden-Level Migrant Crisis

As published August 10, 2026 by The Daily Signal The great Ceuta mass migration crisis—during which a human tsunami of 72,000 North Africans swamped the Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast on July 30 and 31—could easily have lasted for months. However, it is all over but for some mopping up. Few, if any more, are coming or adding to the death toll of 75. Most of … [Read more...] about Did Spain Go Full Trump to End the Ceuta Mass Migration Crisis?

The Trump administration can and must permanently improve asylum integrity, or risk our border looking like Spain again. As published August 4, 2026 by The Federalist The most powerful people-magnet on Earth was at the root of last week’s epic mass migration event that swamped Ceuta, Spain’s city enclave on the Moroccan coast: the perceived opportunity among poor laborers to lodge … [Read more...] about Trump Is Running Out Of Time To End Asylum Abuse

The Reason Deported Haitians Will Be OK By Todd Bensman as published July 29 by The Daily Signal Conniption fits are convulsing liberal pundits, Democratic Party candidates, and Republican serf-labor advocatesover the idea that President Donald Trump is now, finally, cleared to deport some 340,000 Haitians. On Tuesday, the administration followed through on a Supreme Court decision … [Read more...] about The Daily Signal: Deconstructing the Lies About Deporting Haitians

Terabytes of government emails and records from the 45-month mass migration chaos remain unstudied By Todd Bensman as published July 24, 2026 by Fox News Digital Nearly 18 months since President Donald Trump ended the worst mass migration border crisis in American history, terabytes of government emails and records that could teach future generations why and how it happened await … [Read more...] about Fox News op-ed: We need a truth commission to show the world the insanity of the Biden border crisis