Securing America's Borders

By Todd Bensman as published April 4, 2024 by The Daily Mail 'Hit the gas!' I barked at my translator behind the wheel of our tiny rental car. 'Let's get the f*** out of here!' We tore off – and left the reflections of two cartel men shrinking in our rearview mirror. Reporting on the ground in northern Mexico comes with certain risks and chief among them is unexpectedly coming … [Read more...] about Daily Mail: Cartel secrets exposed: Inside Mexican gang territory

Mexico’s president has America hooked on what he’s selling By Todd Bensman as published March 28, 2024 by The American Mind magazine, a publication of the Claremont Institute Yes. He just did that. He went there. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was so supremely confident that his thumb on the scale can tip the U.S. presidential election that he just issued a cash … [Read more...] about Biden’s Boss Tightens the Screws

How the president helped launch a thousand ships toward Florida By Todd Bensman as published March 14, 2024 by The American Mind magazine aiti has now entered a metaphorical Hall of Failed States, where it can be alphabetically exhibited between Congo and Libya. Now, a Florida Keys-bound refugee flotilla of rickety sail boats—ever the irresistible love object of news video cameras—is … [Read more...] about Biden Broke Haiti

By Todd Bensman as published March 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — The State of Texas has now joined federal agencies in alleging a vast land sales fraud and foreclosure abuse scheme by the developers of perhaps the largest illegal immigrant colonia in the United States, a 60-square-mile city of at least 50,000 (and up to 75,000) northeast of Houston … [Read more...] about Strange Bedfellows: Texas Joins Biden Admin. in Suing Massive Illegal-Immigrant Development

By Todd Bensman as published March 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies What the administration of President Joe Biden does next will determine if the collapse and total failure of Haiti — a status now accurately assigned to the Caribbean Island nation — sets off a marine mass migration crisis for the United States in the coming weeks. The first boats full of state-collapse … [Read more...] about What Biden Does Next Will Determine Whether a Mass Seaborne Migration Crisis Develops with Haitians

Government press releases don’t acknowledge flight program See Related: Fact Checking the Fact Check: Bensman Reporting Stands, AND: Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports By Todd Bensman as published March 11, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Nearly two dozen House of Representatives lawmakers have cited Center for … [Read more...] about Lawmakers Cite Bensman CIS Report in Demanding End to Secretive Immigrant Flights

By Todd Bensman as published March 7, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Associated Press reporter Elliot Spagat contacted the Center for Immigration Studies on Wednesday seeking comment for a “fact check” about how others, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk, have characterized my March 4 report “Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. … [Read more...] about Fact Checking the Fact Check: Bensman Reporting Stands

DHS won't say which airports are receiving inadmissible aliens from abroad By Todd Bensman as published March 4, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Thanks to an ongoing Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the public now knows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved secretive flights that last year alone ferried hundreds of … [Read more...] about Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports

SIGN UP for Bensman's free newsletter By Todd Bensman as published February 29, 2024 by The New York Post Austin, Texas — A liberal media horde is about to follow President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump to the Texas border, where they’ll no doubt revel in the absence of even a single actual immigrant illegally crossing the border. Rest assured that Biden’s Border Patrol … [Read more...] about NY Post Column: Advice to Press Corps Following Biden and Trump to the Texas Border: JUST LOOK UP

With Abbott shutting down Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, illegal border crossings are spiking down the road on tribal lands. By Todd Bensman as published February 15, 2024 by The Federalist KICKAPOO NATION, Texas — By now, anyone following President Joe Biden’s historic mass illegal immigration has heard about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s battle with the administration over border fencing at the … [Read more...] about Will The Kickapoo Tribe Be Dragged Into The Abbott-Biden Fray Over Illegal Immigration?