Securing America's Borders

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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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