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Securing America's Borders

Notes on the Trump Administration’s Claim of 3,000-Plus Terrorist Apprehensions at U.S. Borders

January 7, 2019 by Todd Bensman

From a former intelligence worker once immersed in the numbers To clear all this up and regain some semblance of credibility on the issue of terrorist infiltration along the border, the Trump administration needs to pick up data from the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center and the National Counterterrorism Center, which houses everything they need By Todd Bensman on January 7, … [Read more...] about Notes on the Trump Administration’s Claim of 3,000-Plus Terrorist Apprehensions at U.S. Borders

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Video Report: Panama and Costa Rica Doing Smugglers’ Work with “Controlled Flow” Policy

December 27, 2018 by Todd Bensman

Under a policy known as "controlled flow", the governments of Panama and Costa Rica grease the skids to get them smoothly and safely to Nicaragua, Honduras, and Mexico, where organized smugglers can take over again, CIS is told. By Todd Bensman as originally published by the Center for Immigration Studies on December 27, 2018 YAVIZA, DARIEN PROVINCE, Panama — Out of an … [Read more...] about Video Report: Panama and Costa Rica Doing Smugglers’ Work with “Controlled Flow” Policy

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders, Foreign Correspondence

Interview with an Iranian Migrant in Costa Rica En Route to the U.S. Border

December 20, 2018 by Todd Bensman

Four Iranian migrants found in Costa Rica en route to the U.S. southern border talk about their long journey, travel methods and hopes for U.S. asylum. But might they be part of Iranian intelligence or worse, Hezbollah operatives? By Todd Bensman as originally published December 20, 2018 by the Center for Immigration Studies GOLFITO, Costa Rica — Iranian citizen Sina Zandi … [Read more...] about Interview with an Iranian Migrant in Costa Rica En Route to the U.S. Border

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders, Foreign Correspondence

An Interview with a Bangladeshi in Costa Rica en Route to the U.S. Southwest Border

December 19, 2018 by Todd Bensman

Whether 29-year-old Omar Farouk, 29, is hiding a forbidden past and present as a terrorist operative is a question for American homeland security officers to answer when he finally reaches the American southern border in a month or two. I found him in a Costa Rican immigration processing center, after he crossed in from Panama and, before that, from Brazil and Colombia. He is from Bangladesh, … [Read more...] about An Interview with a Bangladeshi in Costa Rica en Route to the U.S. Southwest Border

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Video Report: How Migrants from Countries of Terror Concern Travel Through Central America

December 18, 2018 by Todd Bensman

Thousands of non-Spanish-speaking migrants, known in U.S. homeland security circles as "special interest aliens", from Muslim-majority countries like Iran and Afghanistan cross through Panama once they depart initial landing zones in South America. Here's how the get the U.S. southern border, the easy and the hard way. By Todd Bensman as originally published December 18, 2019 by the Center for … [Read more...] about Video Report: How Migrants from Countries of Terror Concern Travel Through Central America

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

A Rare Interview with a Pakistani Migrant in Costa Rica en Route to the U.S. Border

December 18, 2018 by Todd Bensman

Jawad insists he's no terrorist, and that may be true. But American homeland security authorities at the U.S. border won't want to take him strictly at his word, nor should they. Whether Jawad and his friend were with the Pakistani Taliban, against them, or indifferent to them is a question that American law enforcement intelligence officers on the U.S. border will almost certainly want to get … [Read more...] about A Rare Interview with a Pakistani Migrant in Costa Rica en Route to the U.S. Border

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Four U.S.-Bound Iranian Migrants Underline National Security Concerns about Migration from Special Interest Countries

December 14, 2018 by Todd Bensman

(As published by the Center for Immigration Studies) By Todd Bensman on December 13, 2018 GOLFITO, Costa Rica — The four Iranians told me they first saw me hundreds of miles south, in a Panamanian migration camp 15 miles off the main road, at the end of a dirt track in the Darien jungle. The one who spoke some English told me they had been … [Read more...] about Four U.S.-Bound Iranian Migrants Underline National Security Concerns about Migration from Special Interest Countries

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Video: How America Filters Potential Terrorists in Central America

December 14, 2018 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica – At least every other day, the long arm of America's counterterrorism effort reaches out and touches this essentially lawless, smuggler-ridden town on the Panama-Costa Rica border According to an agreement between Panama and Costa Rica, busloads of northward-moving migrants that American homeland security authorities know as "special interest … [Read more...] about Video: How America Filters Potential Terrorists in Central America

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Four U.S.-Bound Iranian Migrants Underline National Security Concerns about Migration from Special Interest Countries

December 13, 2018 by Todd Bensman

Maybe they'll achieve their asylum claims. But whatever happens, they're all in for serious interrogations once they reach the American border; At issue for American intelligence personnel who will flock to whatever detention center they're in, of course, will be determining whether they are Iranian intelligence agents, members of Hezbollah's notorious Unit 910, or merely victims of a harsh … [Read more...] about Four U.S.-Bound Iranian Migrants Underline National Security Concerns about Migration from Special Interest Countries

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders, Foreign Correspondence

VIDEO Report: How America Uses Bio-metrics to Filter Potential Terrorists in Distant Lands

December 12, 2018 by Todd Bensman

American homeland security authorities have long been wary about unidentified migrants who emigrate from Muslim-majority countries where Islamist terrorist organizations operate. So the U.S. has provided equipment and training to Panama, Costa Rica and other Central American countries to collect fingerprints, facial-recognition photos and retinal eye scans. By Todd Bensman as originally … [Read more...] about VIDEO Report: How America Uses Bio-metrics to Filter Potential Terrorists in Distant Lands

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders, Foreign Correspondence

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