Securing America's Borders

By Todd Bensman as originally published August 19, 2022 by the New York Post Gov. Greg Abbott is busing hundreds of illegal border-crossers to New York, but those hundreds will become thousands for one reason: selfies. Smart-phone technology is a massive driver of migration, sending the message to Central and South America of “wish you were here.” People in Guatemala, Honduras and … [Read more...] about New York Post: How selfies fuel rise in illegal migrants

Biden Diplomacy shortens the infamous Darien Gap passage and new fast-pass Mexican visas By Todd Bensman AUSTIN, Texas – Following months of Biden administration shuttle diplomacy, multinational U.S.-bound immigrants from more than 150 countries are now finding international routes to the southern border faster, easier and less obstructed than ever before. Panama has dramatically … [Read more...] about Biden Government Opens Migrant ‘Superhighway’ Bringing World to Texas Faster and Easier than Ever 

I strongly suspect mayors, governors, school superintendents, and hospital administrators across America have been suffering illegal immigrants in silence for many months already. Now that Adams and Bowser have voiced their complaints, no one should be surprised if a new kind of Me Too movement breaks out among them, especially if there’s federal money in it for them. But rest assured that the … [Read more...] about Are Democrat Mayors Really Just Now Waking Up to the Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History?

Source: Texas governor’s April bridge closure agreement with Mexican governor has triggered major operation to head off migrant caravan By Todd Bensman as published June 15, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — When Mexico last week granted federal humanitarian travel permits to 15,000 U.S.-bound third-country migrants who’d formed the largest … [Read more...] about Migrant Caravan Runs Face-First Into Texas Governor Greg Abbott

Despite Title 42, thousands fill buses and planes headed for the interior By Todd Bensman as originally published June 1, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies DEL RIO, Texas — When the time came to finally board the idling charter bus, a Cuban named George who illegally swam the Rio Grande two days earlier ran to be first in line and start his new “forever” life inside America. … [Read more...] about Border Conveyor Belt Continues Delivering Border-Crossing Immigrants to Interior America

By Todd Bensman as published May 27, 2022 by Town Hall Media An Ohio FBI criminal complaint from a complex sting investigation alleges that a self-proclaimed ISIS fighter seeking asylum in the Buckeye State, who claimed to have killed “many Americans in Iraq between 2003 and 2006” while operating in a hit squad called “Thunder,” plotted to smuggle up to eight of his brethren over the … [Read more...] about About the Iraqi Asylum Seeker Who Allegedly Tried to Smuggle an ISIS Terrorist Hit Squad Over the Mexican Border

By Todd Bensman as originally published April 27, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – Having covered the politically taboo threat issue of Islamic terrorist border crossings and even written a book about it, I have long had to contend with ungenerous government agencies that jealously guard all information about it from public disclosure. So few other people could have … [Read more...] about U.S. Government Now Publishing Terrorist Watch List Encounters at American Land Borders

By Todd Bensman as originally published April 26, 2022 by Townhall Media AUSTIN, Texas — In 2018, when President Donald Trump said Islamic terrorist suspects were crossing America’s southern border among Central American caravans — just about everyone with a megaphone called him a fear-mongering, anti-immigrant liar. But the sound of silence is overwhelming now that Democrats are … [Read more...] about About those 42 Terrorists Who Crossed the American Southern Border

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 50 Summary Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered “enhanced safety inspections” of commercial trucking coming off the international bridges from Mexico in response to the news that the Biden administration would be lifting the Title 42 pandemic-related orders, causing migrant numbers entering the United States to potentially surge to 18,000 a day. Texas … [Read more...] about Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast: Mexican Border States Cry ‘Uncle’, Cut Immigration Deals with Texas

Mexican State of Nuevo Leon will ‘prevent illegal immigration’ on its side of the border, but details are scant By Todd Bensman as originally published April 13, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – Gov. Greg Abbott’s week-old “enhanced safety inspections” operation at border bridges, which significantly impeded international trade from Mexico, has yielded its first … [Read more...] about Texas Governor’s Unprecedented Trade Disruption Strategy Yields First Fruit