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
Securing America's Borders
In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants
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
A Reminder that Afghans Are Using the Border End-Run Option
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
Mexico Freed a Suspected Yemeni Terrorist Migrant – and Left Americans to Find Him
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
United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal Immigration
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
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