DHS's much-anticipated inaugural national threat assessment predicts a mass migration surge next year from Central and South America but also from outside the western hemisphere. Among the latter will be unspecified national security “threat actors,” a likely reference, in part, to terrorist travelers who would stand a better chance of disappearing in the huge crowds. By Todd Bensman as … [Read more...] about Department of Homeland Security Threat Assessment Also Predicts Mass Migration Crisis
Securing America's Borders
VIDEO immigration brief: The Next Migrant Caravan
A New video from the Center for Immigration Studies shows the latest migrant caravan from Honduras, some 4,000 strong, looking as though it would break through Guatemalan police on its way north to the American border. But Guatemalan police later regrouped and disrupted the caravan, bussing most of the migrants home. But circumstances could be very, very different for the very next migrant … [Read more...] about VIDEO immigration brief: The Next Migrant Caravan
Preventing Espionage and Terrorism: The Real Purpose Behind Trump’s Proposals for Foreign Student and Exchange Visitor Visas
The way the programs are run now, the proposal explains, undermines U.S. national security “due to reduced opportunities for direct vetting of foreign academic students by immigration officers. But it also places research universities and the nation at risk for economic, academic, or military espionage by foreign students and exchange visitors.” By Todd Bensman as published October 1, 2020 by … [Read more...] about Preventing Espionage and Terrorism: The Real Purpose Behind Trump’s Proposals for Foreign Student and Exchange Visitor Visas
Iranian Migrant Smuggler Busted Amid new Iran Retaliation Threats for US Killing of Top General
The Brazilian bust of a smuggler who specialized in transporting Iranian migrants over the US southern border is auspicious because it occurs amid heightened American vigilance that Iran will carry out its threats of violent retaliation for the January 2020 US drone-strike killing of Top Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. By Todd Bensman as originally published September 22, 2020 by the Center … [Read more...] about Iranian Migrant Smuggler Busted Amid new Iran Retaliation Threats for US Killing of Top General
A Smuggler of Sri Lankan Migrants Is Busted
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
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