Todd Bensman

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On Conservative Conscience: discussing Hungarian policies that stopped mass migration

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Description of April 4, 2019 episode: "Today I'm joined by Todd Bensman, national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, to discuss the findings of his latest trip to tour Hungary’s border wall. Todd gives us the history of the great Middle Eastern migration into Europe in 2014 and how Hungary and several neighboring countries dealt with it. Yes, they built a wall, but they also … [Read more...] about On Conservative Conscience: discussing Hungarian policies that stopped mass migration

On Secure Freedom Radio: cutting aid to Central America is right and good

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Frank Gaffney's Secure Freedom Radio and Podcast interviews Bensman about Yemenis crossing the Texas border, President Trump's withdrawal of aid to Central America, and border security matters related to Central Americans. Listen to the podcast here. … [Read more...] about On Secure Freedom Radio: cutting aid to Central America is right and good

Exclusive: ISIS Commander Arrested in Hungary Held Refugee Passport Enabling Unrestricted Air Travel

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A savage ISIS decapitator arrested in Hungary somehow got his hands on a refugee passport that gave him unrestricted air travel privileges, a senior Hungarian government official told me in an exclusive interview in Budapest. As ISIS fighters and supporters scatter to an unmapped diaspora, the question is raised: who else among them might be achieving the legal ability to travel freely in Europe - … [Read more...] about Exclusive: ISIS Commander Arrested in Hungary Held Refugee Passport Enabling Unrestricted Air Travel

Twitter series on mandatory catch-and-release stirs coverage and controversy but settled nothing

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Daniel Horowitz of The Conservative Review was among several journalists who wrote about a series of my tweets during the first week of March 2019, which chocked up hundreds of thousands of impressions after the likes of Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter, followers of my account, retweeted them. The tweets were based on secret verbal policy orders that a credible U.S. Citizen and Immigration … [Read more...] about Twitter series on mandatory catch-and-release stirs coverage and controversy but settled nothing

Iran’s Push into Nicaragua

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Bensman at Rama Indian village, Mosquito Coast For Hearst Newspapers MONKEY POINT, NICARAGUA -- The second military helicopter in as many days hovered over the jungle and then landed to a most unwelcome reception from several dozen angry Rama Indian and Creole villagers. Rupert Allen Clear Duncan, a leader of some 400 Creole who live along the shoreline,confronted the foreigners, who … [Read more...] about Iran’s Push into Nicaragua

The Quiet American

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By Todd Bensman, Special for D Magazine, March 2007 GamalAbdel-Hafiz was once one of the most valuable counter-terrorism assets the FBI had. He turned up the names of half the Al Qaida conspirators who planned the USS Cole bombing in 2001. He was the agent who, with a single skillfully executed interrogation in Bahrain, broke open the Lackawanna Six case in 2002, which President Bush touted … [Read more...] about The Quiet American

Breaching America Series

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Since 9/11, authorities have apprehended thousands of “special interest aliens” from Islamic countries crossing U.S. borders. If authentic war refugees could use the underground railroad, why not equally determined terrorists? For Hearst News, Bensman retraced the steps of an Iraqi war refugee who swam the Rio Grande on April 29, 2006. Bensman traveled to Syria, Jordan; Guatemala, Mexico, and the … [Read more...] about Breaching America Series