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With Friends Like Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica Moving Global Migrants to the US Southern Border, Who Needs Enemies?

October 7, 2021 by Todd Bensman

How any White House can break the tsunami of global migration heading toward the southern border By Todd Bensman as published October 7, 2021 in The Federalist LISTEN TO BENSMAN ON THE FEDERALIST RADIO HOUR A human migration tsunami of historic proportions – anywhere from 70,000 to 85,000 strong – is on its way from throughout the globe to the US southern border, funneling through the … [Read more...] about With Friends Like Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica Moving Global Migrants to the US Southern Border, Who Needs Enemies?

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The Federalist Radio Hour: Todd Bensman, the Story Behind Del Rio and the Face Of Biden’s Border Crisis

October 6, 2021 by Todd Bensman

OCTOBER 5, 2021 By The Federalist Staff On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Todd Bensman, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and author of “America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss President Joe Biden’s Southern border crisis and why … [Read more...] about The Federalist Radio Hour: Todd Bensman, the Story Behind Del Rio and the Face Of Biden’s Border Crisis

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For CD Media: Last Year’s DHS Threat Assessment Predicted Wave Of Haitian Illegal Migration In A Southern Border Crisis

October 6, 2021 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman as published October 5, 2021 by Creative Destruction Media In October 2020, the national news media and liberal Democrats practically regaled the release of a U.S. Department of Homeland Security annual “Threat Assessment” for its conclusion that white supremacists posed the “most persistent and lethal” domestic terrorism threat to America. Few challenged the DHS report’s … [Read more...] about For CD Media: Last Year’s DHS Threat Assessment Predicted Wave Of Haitian Illegal Migration In A Southern Border Crisis

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The Next ‘Del Rio’ Mass Migration Crisis Is Already Brewing in Yuma, Ariz. — and About To Get Worse

October 6, 2021 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman as published October 6, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies Before a Del Rio, Texas, migrant camp of 15,000 briefly captured national and White House attention, another volcanic rupture point in the southern border fault line was already flaring: this one in Yuma, Ariz. In a sign that the Department of Homeland Security sees the Yuma Sector as poised to blow even more … [Read more...] about The Next ‘Del Rio’ Mass Migration Crisis Is Already Brewing in Yuma, Ariz. — and About To Get Worse

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The Federalist: Del Rio Migrant Camp Proves Biden Can Stop Mass Migration Crisis Whenever He Wants

October 2, 2021 by Todd Bensman

The September 12–24 migrant camp crisis in Del Rio displayed two lessons very much worth unpacking from the White House response. Two main actionable takeaways from Del Rio that the White House, Congress, and U.S. media should know, study and apply to significantly temper the crisis that birthed Del Rio See all of Bensman's Del Rio migrant camp coverage here Link to all Bensman media … [Read more...] about The Federalist: Del Rio Migrant Camp Proves Biden Can Stop Mass Migration Crisis Whenever He Wants

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On-Site Coverage of the Del Rio Migrant Camp Crisis

September 29, 2021 by Todd Bensman

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Creative Destruction Media: One Afghan Military Interpreter Resettled in New Jersey Went Bad; Smuggled fellow Afghan ‘Security Risk’ over the Texas-Mexico Border

September 14, 2021 by Todd Bensman

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

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An Afghan Vetting Failure

September 13, 2021 by Todd Bensman

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

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9/11+ 20: America still struggles to vet entering foreigners for national security threats

September 9, 2021 by Todd Bensman

(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

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Expect increasing numbers of Afghans to End-Run Through America’s Open Southern Border

August 19, 2021 by Todd Bensman

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

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