Securing America's Borders

By Todd Bensman as published April 28, 2021 for the Center for Immigration Studies OJINAGA, Mexico — The nine Central Americans filed single file from a Mexican customs building at the Presidio-Ojinaga International Bridge and out onto the street with no food, no plan and the heavy burden of bad luck. The US Border Patrol had caught them on a ranch about 80 or 100 miles inside Texas … [Read more...] about Inside a Cartel Smuggling Operation Into West Texas

'There's no one watching', a smuggler says By Todd Bensman as published on April 27, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies OJINAGA, Mexico — Under the international bridge connecting this town to Presidio, Texas, a human smuggling guide snorted cocaine with a buddy and two prostitutes — the chosen rewards for work leading a large group of Central American immigrants on a … [Read more...] about The Border Crisis Comes to a Once-Quiet part of West Texas

The recent government enforcement moves against the Abid Ali Khan human smuggling network represent the latest salvo in an ongoing U.S. homeland security effort to combat jihadist border infiltration. The actions occur as a mass migration crisis at the border threatens to collapse normal border control systems and escalate this particular threat. By Todd Bensman as originally published … [Read more...] about Amid Border Crisis, U.S. Government Strikes at Pakistani Smuggler of ‘National Security Risk’ Migrants

Charters and Greyhound are delivering them where they want to go Tens of thousands of immigrants caught illegally crossing the border and then released under the new leniency policy of President Joe Biden are now dispersing to four corners of the United States on buses, with some of the more moneyed ones taking passenger jets. They often drop their Haitian, Venezuelan, and Cuban passengers in … [Read more...] about Catch-and-Bus: Thousands of Freed Border-Crossing Immigrants are Dispersing Across America

CIS has identified at least five methods by which immigrants are end-running the Mexican military effort, which President Donald Trump demanded in 2019 (under threat of ruinous trade tariffs) and which the Biden administration is now counting on to help end the embarrassing political spectacle of a full-blown mass-migration crisis that is developing on our southern border. By Todd Bensman as … [Read more...] about How Illegal Immigrants Are End-Running Mexico’s Vaunted National Guard Cordon

By Todd Bensman as published March 30, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — When Anderson Castaneda left his native Honduras in October 2020, betting that a victorious President Joe Biden would open the borders wide, this medium-sized northern city of 165,000 across from Eagle Pass, Texas, was hardly his first choice. Nor even a close second or third. In fact, … [Read more...] about Illegal Immigrants Shopping Border Sectors Amid Unpredictable American Border Policy

WATCH THE FULL PANEL HERE WATCH A SEVEN-MINUTE EXCERPT OF BENSMAN EXPLAINING HIS BOOK HERE Joseph Humire, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society: "I think you hit the nail on the head Todd when you said there’s equally two wrong reactions to this problem set, that there’re folks to under-value, underestimate this whole thing and say, ‘well, that’s ridiculous if you were to … [Read more...] about America’s Covert Border War, A Panel Discussion Center for a Secure Free Society

DHS acknowledges that suspected Islamic terrorists are crossing the southern border By Todd Bensman as published March 19, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies “We are able to identify and apprehend them and ensure that they do not remain in the United States.” U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas this week asserted that suspected Islamic terrorists … [Read more...] about Landmark Confirmation of Border Terror Threat

Europe’s experience showcases a new terrorism travel phenomenon on the world stage: that malevolent long-haul migrants from countries rife with Islamist terrorist organizations now routinely cross land borders of western nations and do so far less noticeably when high volumes of benevolent economic migrants have overwhelmed border management systems. Are there lessons for the US? By Todd … [Read more...] about Europe’s Migrant Crisis, Still Yielding Terror, Foretells The Effects Of Biden’s Border-Crossing Boom.

With countries like Panama and Costa Rica now loosening their borders, the march is on in remote locations like the Chilean town of Colchane on the border with Bolivia, where police have fought a losing battle against thousands of U.S.-bound migrants since January and at the Brazil-Peru border where a caravan of 400 battled Peruvian police and military. By Todd Bensman as published March 1, … [Read more...] about ‘Extra-Continental’ Migrants Throughout the Americas Marching and Clashing Their Way Toward New Biden Border