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Assessing the Report of Four ISIS Terrorist Suspects Caught in Nicaragua

June 26, 2019 by Todd Bensman

One of the four is said to be a convicted murderer in Iraq serving a life sentence. The others? We'll have to wait for an investigation to run its course and, once it does, the public may well never be told of the outcome for a very wrong and unfortunate reason: If past experience indicates future behavior, this is a story that major American news media with the biggest audience shares are going … [Read more...] about Assessing the Report of Four ISIS Terrorist Suspects Caught in Nicaragua

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Enhanced Security Vetting Required Now for Congolese Immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border

June 21, 2019 by Todd Bensman

An ISIS franchise in the Democratic Republic of Congo and rampaging militias engaged in massacres, kidnapping, and torture warrants enhanced vetting of hundreds of Congolese young men crossing the U.S. southern border. Government must pause from the chaos of the Central American influx and ensure that migrants from Central Africa are not as quickly released into the interior. Greater vetting … [Read more...] about Enhanced Security Vetting Required Now for Congolese Immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

What To Make of a Report that ISIS Planned to Breach U.S.-Mexico Border? An interview with the author

June 20, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Whatever becomes of the inevitable investigation or ISIS captive Abu Henricki of Canada, the published report about what he said should serve as a wake-up call to American decision-makers and voters, regardless of partisan sentiment, to look at the current border crisis as about much more than Central Americans with children. By Todd Bensman,  originally published by the Center … [Read more...] about What To Make of a Report that ISIS Planned to Breach U.S.-Mexico Border? An interview with the author

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Analysis: Why The Mexican Military’s Mission to the Guatemala-Mexico Border May Not Work Well

June 10, 2019 by Todd Bensman

The Mexican troops to be deployed to the Guatemala border are going to need naval support on the Pacific Ocean, endurance support for long-range reconnaissance in the Petén Jungle of northeastern Guatemala. They'll need Guatemala's intelligence on who's moving where, when. They'll need a willingness to use non-lethal force such as tear gas, as the Americas did in January at the Tijuana, Mexico, … [Read more...] about Analysis: Why The Mexican Military’s Mission to the Guatemala-Mexico Border May Not Work Well

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

How Central American Migrants Pay for Kids to Get Over the Border; An Interview on the Front Line

May 29, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Along with hundreds of thousands of Central American economic migrants exploiting a border-crossing loophole for children came unverified stories, rumors really, that some of the children didn't belong to the adults claiming them, that they were being "recycled," or even kidnapped for the crossing. Here's what's really going on. By Todd Bensman originally published by the Center … [Read more...] about How Central American Migrants Pay for Kids to Get Over the Border; An Interview on the Front Line

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Why the Case of Jordanian-Mexican Smuggler Who Transported Yemenis over the Texas Border Matters

May 1, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Federal prosecutors and law enforcement leaders held a press conference in San Antonio to announce a plea deal with a human smuggler who transported Yemenis over the Texas border, reportedly some with terrorism ties. I thought that what these leaders had to say more generally about the terror infiltration threat at the border was more significant than the plea deal, so I opened the spigot and … [Read more...] about Why the Case of Jordanian-Mexican Smuggler Who Transported Yemenis over the Texas Border Matters

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Idiot Lights Blinking: Vetting Failures Still Favor Lying Terrorist Migrants

May 1, 2019 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman as published by the Center for Immigration Studies on April 30, 2019 New reports keep piling up that asylum seekers and refugees from terrorism-spawning countries have slipped through the U.S. vetting systems despite records of Islamic terrorism. Like episodic idiot-lights on the car dashboard that briefly blink on and then disappear for a while, news reports slowly raise … [Read more...] about Idiot Lights Blinking: Vetting Failures Still Favor Lying Terrorist Migrants

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Why Cutting Aid to Central America Is Right and Good

April 16, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Contrary to an oft-heard liberal plaint about President Trump's plans to cut aid to Central America, foreign aid amounts to bribe money, which the U.S. government has always paid to purchase friendship and help when it wants it. The quaint narrative about how U.S. foreign aid puts down El Salvadoran gang-bangers runs smack into this reality about the world and is, in its way, almost adorable in … [Read more...] about Why Cutting Aid to Central America Is Right and Good

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

ISIS Commander Arrested in Hungary Held Refugee Passport Enabling Unrestricted Air Travel

April 5, 2019 by Todd Bensman

The arrest of Hassan also raises the question of whether Greece, as a key refugee transit country, is properly vetting higher risk migrants for potential ties to ISIS before granting refugee status and conferring its benefits. The United States has reportedly been assisting Greece, to some extent, in vetting incoming migrants and refugees to determine whether any are terrorists. By Todd … [Read more...] about ISIS Commander Arrested in Hungary Held Refugee Passport Enabling Unrestricted Air Travel

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders, Foreign Correspondence

Report from Hungary’s Fenced Borderlands

April 4, 2019 by Todd Bensman

Not lost on the Hungarians, at least, are the parallels to the current mass illegal migration from Central America over America's southern border, projected to exceed one million in 2019, and as President Donald Trump contemplates building barriers and closing the U.S.-Mexico border. Hungary's fence-with-policies model justifies consideration in an ideas-hungry United States. By Todd Bensman … [Read more...] about Report from Hungary’s Fenced Borderlands

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders, Foreign Correspondence

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