Securing America's Borders

Hint: Biden and Mexico’s Obrador have arranged an out-of-view crackdown that could endure through the U.S. presidential election and serve them both politically By Todd Bensman as published January 17, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — Nothing in the American experience has ever compared to the 10,000-14,000 illegal crossings every day the last several months … [Read more...] about Recent Sky-High Levels of Illegal Migration Are Dropping Fast — and Here’s Why

By Todd Bensman as published January 8, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies See related: Feds Sue Texas Developers of Huge Illegal-Immigrant Community AUSTIN, Texas — Existential troubles continue to mount for the developers of Colony Ridge, who a dozen years ago spawned what has become perhaps the largest illegal-immigrant colonia in America, just northeast of Houston. The U.S. … [Read more...] about Report: EPA Confirms Investigation of Huge Illegal-Immigrant City in Texas

Complaint’s claims: ‘Colony Ridge lies to all of its buyers,’ ‘All of this is illegal,’ ‘predatory loans turned dreams into nightmares’ See related: EPA Confirms Investigation of Huge Illegal-Immigrant City in Texas Todd Bensman as published January 4, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies In the last months of 2023, developers of the massive “Colony Ridge” housing development in … [Read more...] about Feds Sue Texas Developers of Huge Illegal-Immigrant Community

By Todd Bensman NEAR BIHAC, BOSNIA - Among the Syrians, Moroccans, and Algerians thronging the United Nations’ Camp Lipa in northwestern Bosnia, I met a young Afghan man on his way to England who typified one potential problem Europe faces amid powerfully resurgent mass illegal immigration. The man said in broken English that he’d not fled the Taliban, identified by the U.S. Treasury … [Read more...] about Are Borders Back in Europe? Claremont Institute’s The American Mind Magazine

Perhaps an unauthorized work-around to limits on asylum or work visas By Todd Bensman on November 3, 2023 AUSTIN, Texas — Of all the revelations from a recent Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information Act lawsuit none was more surprising than that the U.S. government allowed the entry of more than 57,000 Mexican nationals through the secretive CBP One smartphone app … [Read more...] about Why Is Biden Quietly Granting ‘Humanitarian Protection’ to Thousands of Mexicans?

Read the full Center for Immigration Studies story here too: Texas Seizes Cartel Island in the Rio Grande, or at The Daily Mail: … [Read more...] about Video Report: Texas Seizes Cartel Island in the Rio Grande in Risky First-of-a-Kind Operation

By force of arms, elite Texas Rangers occupy the largest cartel sanctuary island yet to deny its use for further marauding By Todd Bensman as published October 11, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies SEE VIDEO REPORT NEAR FRONTON, Texas – As the orange rays of early dawn lit a local corn farm Monday morning, the Texas Rangers commander briefed a heavily armed assembly of elite … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: Texas Seizes Cartel Island in the Rio Grande

Biden’s DHS is either importing perfect angels over the southern border or breaching promise of security vetting By Todd Bensman as published September 26, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all of 2023, top Biden administration officials have repeatedly assured Americans that aspiring illegal border crossers would undergo “rigorous security … [Read more...] about New Records Show Biden’s DHS Accepting 99.7 Percent of Recent Aliens Applying for Entry Using CBP One