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
Securing America's Borders
Mass Migration Through Panama’s Darien Gap Destroying an Indigenous Tribe – and Human Rights Organizations Don’t Care
'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
CBP: Migrants from Terror-Plagued Regions Are Crossing the Southern Border
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
Don’t Look Now, but ICE Is Deporting Some Central American Families by Air
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
Inside a Most Unusual Mexican Migrant Camp, UN Handing out Cash Debit Cards
By Todd Bensman as published November 22, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies REYNOSA, Mexico - On a remote stretch of Rio Grande flood plain at the foot of this city of 600,000 within eyesight of McAllen, Texas, more than 1,200 migrants live in tents behind the tall cement walls of a 10-acre riverbank compound belonging to a Mexican non-profit organization that calls itself “Senda … [Read more...] about Inside a Most Unusual Mexican Migrant Camp, UN Handing out Cash Debit Cards
Border Patrol Agents Who Chose Termination Over Vaccination
Three agents describe their reasoning and internal torment By Todd Bensman as published November 12, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – Thousands of U.S. Border Patrol Agents are among the vast population of federal workers who had until November 8 to officially stake their position, in line with President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate, as to whether they will … [Read more...] about Border Patrol Agents Who Chose Termination Over Vaccination
In an Historic United States First, National Guard Soldiers Start Arresting Illegal Migrants on the US-Mexico Border
The idea is for Texas to create deterrence along these lands by installing fencing along the river and arresting adult male migrant runners on state criminal trespassing charges when they climb over or cut through the fencing. This action will deter migrants downstream who hear about what Texas is doing from friends, relatives, and the media. To date, oddly, national media has avoided reporting on … [Read more...] about In an Historic United States First, National Guard Soldiers Start Arresting Illegal Migrants on the US-Mexico Border
Amid Border Crisis, State Department Offers Rare Cash Rewards to Capture Fugitive Smuggler of Afghans to Southern Border
Biden Administration action suggests heightened urgency to reduce a terror travel threat at the border. The reward for Abid Ali Khan's capture comes amid an Afghanistan refugee crisis and national media reporting that historically large numbers of international migrants from around the world are on their way to the southern border through the Darien Gap jungle route Khan uses. By Todd Bensman … [Read more...] about Amid Border Crisis, State Department Offers Rare Cash Rewards to Capture Fugitive Smuggler of Afghans to Southern Border
With Friends Like Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica Moving Global Migrants to the US Southern Border, Who Needs Enemies?
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?
The Federalist Radio Hour: Todd Bensman, the Story Behind Del Rio and the Face Of Biden’s Border Crisis
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