Securing America's Borders

Mexico’s demand to suppress U.S. gun trafficking is unmoored from facts By Todd Bensman as published February 19, 2025 by The American Mind AUSTIN, Texas – President Trump’s recent deal with Mexico has Mexico deploying 10,000 troops to the border. But America’s commitments in agreement have gone insufficiently examined.   “For the first time, the U.S. government will work jointly … [Read more...] about American Guns are Not to Blame for Mexico’s Cartel Problem

By Todd Bensman as published February 12, 2025 by the Center for Immigration Studies Abrutal prison camp guard supervisor who oversaw horrific human rights atrocities during the Bosnian civil war, but who managed to gain a green card and U.S. citizenship anyway, is the latest addition to the Center for Immigration Studies National Security Vetting Failures Database. The entry brings the … [Read more...] about Bosnian War Criminal Who Twice Slipped National Security Vetting Added to CIS Database

Odds are that lead will fly as Mexico positions 10,000 troops between cartels and their drug money – and watch for triggering US-supported raids on drug labs and narcotics depots By Todd Bensman as published February 7, 2025 by The Daily Wire AUSTIN, Texas – “Abrazos, no balazos” – often translated into English as “Hugs, not Bullets,” is the chosen political slogan that Mexico’s last … [Read more...] about Is Mexico Facing a Hot US-Backed Shooting War with its Drug Cartels?

Trump’s blockaded border has turned untold thousands of foreign nationals into wards of the Mexican state By Todd Bensman as published February 5, 2025 Mexico is in chaos as its government struggles to manage a swollen population of restive foreign nationals blocked by the first weeks of President Donald Trump’s high-deterrence border closure policies, a content analysis of recent Mexican … [Read more...] about What’s Happening in Mexico?

By Todd Bensman as published February 1, 2025 by The New York Post For four years, I’ve reported about how a large, organized constellation of United Nations agencies partnered with hundreds of private nonprofit groups to direct billions of mostly US-taxpayer dollars into supporting historic illegal southern border crossing levels during President Joe Biden’s term in office. Even for the … [Read more...] about NY Post: Finally, Trump Clamps Cash Firehose to Mass Migration Nonprofits

Time for Americans to recognize it as political manipulation, call it out as exploitative, and push back By Todd Bensman AUSTIN, Texas – Anyone wondering what kind of skullduggery is afoot to defeat the new Trump Administration’s imminent deportation operations need look no further than Bakersfield in the Central Valley of California’s Kern County. Surprise U.S. Border Patrol agent … [Read more...] about “Injustice Porn”: Get Ready for the Next Big Thing on the Immigration Front

By Todd Bensman as published January 15, 2025 by The New York Post When Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president, approved a sweeping extension of “Temporary Protected Status” to 600,000 Venezuelans, most Americans could not know that his official justification was based almost entirely on a lie. TPS prevents deportations for 18 months, ever renewable, on grounds that home … [Read more...] about New York Post: Biden’s final border lie: That hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan Fraudsters Need a Deportation Pass

New U.N. planning docs show billions of dollars budgeted for debit cards, transportation, shelter, food and cash. By Todd Bensman as published January 14, 2025 by The Daily Wire AUSTIN, Texas – The large, organized constellation of United Nations and nongovernmental organization (NGO) agencies sees a rosy future for itself even under Donald Trump, having already directed billions of mostly … [Read more...] about The Daily Wire: As Trump 2.0 Approaches, NGOs Continue To Fund Mass Migration With U.S. Tax Dollars

Immigrants lived for years in safe nations that should take them back By Todd Bensman as published December 18, 2024 by The American Mind Expect conflict when President-elect Donald Trump revokes, as planned, the “Temporary Protected Status (TPS)” program that President Joe Biden massively expanded to shield almost one million immigrants from deportation. Biden did so on grounds … [Read more...] about The American Mind: ‘Temporary Protected Status’ is a Fraud

By Todd Bensman as published December 16, 2024 by The Daily Mail Online HUEHUETOCA, Mexico – There were no signs of human life, just railroad tracks and a rough dirt road, six miles west of a small Mexican mountain town. But this was definitely the place described to me. On a recent trip to Mexico City's sprawling migrant encampments, I heard again and again stories about … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: bizarre rumor driving Train-surfing migrants to rush US border