By Todd Bensman as originally published August 31, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies The horrific Islamic jihadist bombings that killed more than 300 Sri Lankan Christians celebrating Easter in April 2019 had to have been on the forefront of U.S. investigators' minds when they received word some months later that Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) authorities intercepted a Haitian sloop … [Read more...] about A Smuggler of Sri Lankan Migrants Is Busted
Securing America's Borders
A Dystopian “Biden Effect:” Now in the Offing on Illegal Immigration
A Biden Effect would look like a sustained migrant crisis in which hundreds of thousands of Central Americans and others from around the world, who have by now fully absorbed Biden campaign promises, would storm through Mexico once again in vast human caravans. By Todd Bensman as originally published by the Center for Immigration Studies A few months after President Donald Trump’s 2016 … [Read more...] about A Dystopian “Biden Effect:” Now in the Offing on Illegal Immigration
In Europe, Migrant-Terrorist Strikes Continue
Europe’s tragic experience with refugee resettlement from Muslim-majority nations holds lessons for American homeland security strategists and policy-makers, especially the extent to which security vetting is incorporated as a central component in any national strategy to manage border-crossing migrants arriving as strangers without identification at the U.S.-Mexico border. By Todd … [Read more...] about In Europe, Migrant-Terrorist Strikes Continue
How CBP Is Moving to End an Incoming Covid Wave From Mexico
Of the 1,867 CBP employees who have tested positive for Covid-19, 773 work in Texas and another 491 about split between California and Arizona. Their infections, as well as the tragedy of Agent Marco Gonzales and other agents who died of Covid in South Texas serve as a reminder to Americans that new Border Patrol agents now flooding the Texas zone will be putting their lives on the line to keep … [Read more...] about How CBP Is Moving to End an Incoming Covid Wave From Mexico
CBP Launches Major Operation in Texas to Catch Covid-Sickened Illegal Immigrants Entering From Mexico; Trump Considers Closing Border Exemptions
The new CBP operation on the Texas border confirms a phenomenon that senior government officials and media have studiously avoided addressing about sharp Covid spikes in border states like Texas: that significant numbers of illegal immigrants crossing to work in the country's black market economy are sick with Covid-19. "Even though some of the illegal aliens know, or highly suspect, that … [Read more...] about CBP Launches Major Operation in Texas to Catch Covid-Sickened Illegal Immigrants Entering From Mexico; Trump Considers Closing Border Exemptions
CBP Chief: Covid-Infected Illegal Migrants Being Taken to US Border Hospitals While CPB Personnel Dying of Virus in the Line of Duty
Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan also suggested that other numbers of infected illegal migrants (40,000 were apprehended in July) were using evasion tactics "for their own economic endeavors" and are presumed to be infecting large numbers of working illegal migrants they later join inside the United States. By Todd Bensman as originally published on August 7, 2020 Amid profound Covid-19 … [Read more...] about CBP Chief: Covid-Infected Illegal Migrants Being Taken to US Border Hospitals While CPB Personnel Dying of Virus in the Line of Duty
For Townhall: The Covid-infected Are Fleeing Mexico…for US Hospitals
By Todd Bensman as originally published July 23, 2020 in Townhall Media Last month, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey uttered forbidden words that drew such hot-stove backlash that neither he nor any other border state governor has dared repeat them. Mexican Covid patients with dual U.S. citizenship, Ducey told President Trump’s coronavirus task force during a June 22 governor’s conference … [Read more...] about For Townhall: The Covid-infected Are Fleeing Mexico…for US Hospitals
Rare Reveal: Mass Asylum Fraud at the Southern Border
NPR reporter Lauren Frayer published a report July 9 that is rather remarkable in that it lays bare for a broad listening (and reading) audience exactly how thousands of Indian migrants, all largely coming for jobs and lifestyle, game the asylum system by posing as persecuted torture victims at the border. By Todd Bensman as published July 16, 2020 by the Center for Immigration … [Read more...] about Rare Reveal: Mass Asylum Fraud at the Southern Border
Members of Congress Request Information about Covid Patient Imports from Mexico
Finally, three members of Congress have moved to pick up where the media failed in filling this important gap in our knowledge, with a letter to Acting Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf requesting answers to 13 questions about who is crossing from Mexico for U.S. treatment. Separately, the Center for Immigration Studies has filed FOIA requests. By Todd Bensman as published … [Read more...] about Members of Congress Request Information about Covid Patient Imports from Mexico
The Texas Covid Spike: An Argument to Revamp Trump’s Emergency Border Closure – Right Now
By Todd Bensman as originally published July 7, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – The narrative about the current State of Texas Covid-19 crisis goes like this: Fault for the escalating spike in hospitalizations that have overwhelmed care facilities falls squarely on Gov. Greg Abbott’s phased reopening and also the cavalier partying of bar patrons and Spring-break … [Read more...] about The Texas Covid Spike: An Argument to Revamp Trump’s Emergency Border Closure – Right Now