Securing America's Borders

Case provides fair warning about the limits of U.S. security screening for Afghans By Todd Bensman as published September 15, 2021 by Creative Destruction Media With tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees in the pipeline for U.S. resettlement, the largely unreported federal prosecution of New Jersey resident Mujeeb Rahman Saify begs visitation as a reminder that national security screening … [Read more...] about Creative Destruction Media: One Afghan Military Interpreter Resettled in New Jersey Went Bad; Smuggled fellow Afghan ‘Security Risk’ over the Texas-Mexico Border

Doctor gained U.S. entry despite terror ties before and after screening By Todd Bensman as published September 10, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies In through a once-broken immigration front door that most Americans thought fixed after the 9/11 attacks came an Afghan doctor named Hayatullah Dawari, whose case is worth recalling on this 20th anniversary. The U.S. State … [Read more...] about An Afghan Vetting Failure

(A Podcast Interview with Todd Bensman about 9/11) A research paper by Todd Bensman, as published September 9, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies The success of the September 11 plot depended on the ability of the hijackers to obtain visas and pass an immigration and customs inspection in order to enter the United States. It also depended on their ability to remain here undetected … [Read more...] about 9/11+ 20: America still struggles to vet entering foreigners for national security threats

By Todd Bensman as published August 19, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — However many U.S. entry visas the Biden White House decides to grant Afghans, those who find the legal way blocked have a tried and true end run at their disposal: the stress-fractured American southern border. Well-established routes and smugglers are in place — and have been for years — to … [Read more...] about Expect increasing numbers of Afghans to End-Run Through America’s Open Southern Border

As originally published August 16, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies Skeptics who deny that violent Islamic jihadist immigrants would or could ever illegally cross land borders and attack western nations in the midst of mass-migration crises will surely want to run and hide from Europol’s latest European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2021 (TESAT). The … [Read more...] about Europe’s Latest Terrorism Threat Report: Violent jihadists who killed and plotted in 2020 illegally crossed borders first

By Todd Bensman as originally published August 3, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies In the physics of illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, the long, sweltering days of June and July usually bring traffic to a cyclical ebb. But this June — and now July — the number of immigrants who have entered illegally has apparently defied all such physics. For the … [Read more...] about July Apprehension Numbers Have Entered Historic Crisis Level

Migrants from nations the world over make up increasing percentage of those reaching the US southern border. CBP’s latest numbers show that since November, “extra-continental” migrants and those from nations beyond Mexico and Central America have more than quintupled and at more than a quarter of the 178,416 Border Patrol apprehensions at the Southwest border. Some are from failing states in his … [Read more...] about National Security Concern: A World of Immigrants Enticed to America’s Southern Border

By Todd Bensman as originally published July 26 in Townhall Media Jihadist hate for Jews allegedly inspired 24-year-old Egyptian Khaled Awad on July 1 to viciously stab Boston area Rabbi Shlomo Noginski outside a Jewish day school. Suffolk County authorities were planning to charge the Egyptian chemical engineering student with domestic terrorism-related hate crimes, and the … [Read more...] about Townhall Media: Biden Administration Gives Assist to Jihadist Student Visa Holders