Securing America's Borders

By Todd Bensman as published January 28, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies TAPACHULA, Mexico – Beyond public light, President Joe Biden’s government has ramped up daily ICE-Air deportation flights of Haitian border crossers to the capital of Port-au-Prince, a kind of operation that brought intense criticism from the Democratic Party’s progressive liberal wing when he briefly used it to … [Read more...] about Biden Administration Secretively Renews Daily Air-Repatriation Flights to Haiti

Those rejected for Mexican asylum get new stories to help with their appeals, allowing them to continue north to the U.S. By Todd Bensman as originally published January 24, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies See also: In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants and United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal … [Read more...] about UN Funds Harvesting ‘Repressed Memories’ of U.S.-Bound Migrants in Mexico

By Todd Bensman as originally published January 17, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies TAPACHULA, Mexico — Between August and December 2021, Mexico mired between 30,000 and 50,000 U.S.-bound immigrants behind a bureaucratic dam in this southernmost city near the Guatemala border, requiring permission slips for onward movement that purposefully took months to get. This slow-roll-them … [Read more...] about Mexico’s Duplicitous ‘Ant Operation’ Moved Tens of Thousands to the U.S. Border Sight Unseen — and Will Again Through 2022

By Todd Bensman as originally published January 20, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies See also: United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal Immigration TAPACHULA, Mexico — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which receives billions in U.S. taxpayer money, is handing out cash debit cards and other funds for lodging and prescription medicines to U.S.-bound … [Read more...] about In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants

By Todd Bensman as originally published January 4, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies U.S. Border Patrol agents near Calexico, Calif., recently detained an Afghan migrant who crossed from Mexico, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection activity log document obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies. “Ahmad Nasiri”, 29, was detained just before Christmas on an … [Read more...] about A Reminder that Afghans Are Using the Border End-Run Option

Suggests coordination breakdown between U.S. homeland security and Mexican intelligence amid overwhelming mass-migration crisis By Todd Bensman as originally published December 28, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – On November 20, the government of Mexico released a Yemeni migrant who was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list – on condition that he “report weekly” to … [Read more...] about Mexico Freed a Suspected Yemeni Terrorist Migrant – and Left Americans to Find Him

Monthly cash for food, lodging, and 'movement' assistance amounts to material support for illegal immigration. It influences decisions to cross By Todd Bensman as published December 16, 2021 by The Federalist AUSTIN, Texas – During a recent trip to a Reynosa, Mexico migrant camp, I took photos of a United Nations-supported International Organization for Migration (IOM) operation … [Read more...] about United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal Immigration

'There are no organizations that are fighting for our human rights' By Todd Bensman as originally published December 13, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies WASHINGTON, DC – The leader of the Embera Tribe left his jungle homeland in Panama’s Darien Gap and came to the nation’s capital last week with an SOS message to the American people: a record-setting mass migration through his … [Read more...] about Mass Migration Through Panama’s Darien Gap Destroying an Indigenous Tribe – and Human Rights Organizations Don’t Care

Traveling through the Panama-Colombia Darien Gap from Syria, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc. By Todd Bensman as originally published December 3, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — The press office of U.S. Customs and Border Protection offered no judgments in a recent press release pregnant with unspoken meaning — just the facts, ma’am. But I certainly … [Read more...] about CBP: Migrants from Terror-Plagued Regions Are Crossing the Southern Border

Catch-and-release continues for others, but secretive program seems to be reducing the flow at the border By Todd Bensman as originally published December 1, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies MCALLEN, Texas — At this city’s main airport and others in South Texas, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security is carrying out secretive and escalating air deportations of tens … [Read more...] about Don’t Look Now, but ICE Is Deporting Some Central American Families by Air