Securing America's Borders

The Trump administration must target and imprison average individual fraudsters. By Todd Bensman as published July 15, 2026 by The Daily Wire Praise is due to a recent Trump administration push to nail immigration lawyers for the broadly undeterred crime of running mass asylum fraud schemes, which have let huge volumes of ineligible illegal aliens into the country. The asylum … [Read more...] about This Should Be The Next Enforcement Tool To Secure America’s Borders

See Also Bensman's: Front Line Field Reports, 2021-2025, from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History The Greatest Mass Migration Crisis in US History is Over I declare its end not as a government official with any annointed authority to do so, but as someone who accurately foretold the coming crisis before it began in 2020 and 2021 and then, for the … [Read more...] about Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is OVER; RIP January 2021-January 2025

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

In light of the Trump Administration's admission of white South African refugees into the United States, the following story that Bensman reported and wrote in December 2001 as a staff writer for The Dallas Morning News covering immigration courts. The 25-year-old story shows this is not the first time the United States provided sanctuary for white Africans ostensibly fleeing forced land … [Read more...] about An old 2001 news story by then-reporter Bensman offers context to Trump’s admission of White South African refugees: “White Zimbabweans Seek Asylum”

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