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
Securing America's Borders
The Next ‘Del Rio’ Mass Migration Crisis Is Already Brewing in Yuma, Ariz. — and About To Get Worse
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 Federalist: Del Rio Migrant Camp Proves Biden Can Stop Mass Migration Crisis Whenever He Wants
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
On-Site Coverage of the Del Rio Migrant Camp Crisis
Creative Destruction Media: One Afghan Military Interpreter Resettled in New Jersey Went Bad; Smuggled fellow Afghan ‘Security Risk’ over the Texas-Mexico Border
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
An Afghan Vetting Failure
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
9/11+ 20: America still struggles to vet entering foreigners for national security threats
(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
Expect increasing numbers of Afghans to End-Run Through America’s Open Southern Border
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
Europe’s Latest Terrorism Threat Report: Violent jihadists who killed and plotted in 2020 illegally crossed borders first
As originally published August 16, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies Skeptics who deny that violent Islamic jihadist immigrants would or could ever illegally cross land borders and attack western nations in the midst of mass-migration crises will surely want to run and hide from Europol’s latest European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2021 (TESAT). The … [Read more...] about Europe’s Latest Terrorism Threat Report: Violent jihadists who killed and plotted in 2020 illegally crossed borders first
July Apprehension Numbers Have Entered Historic Crisis Level
By Todd Bensman as originally published August 3, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies In the physics of illegal immigration at the U.S. southern border, the long, sweltering days of June and July usually bring traffic to a cyclical ebb. But this June — and now July — the number of immigrants who have entered illegally has apparently defied all such physics. For the … [Read more...] about July Apprehension Numbers Have Entered Historic Crisis Level