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On the Steve Gruber Show Video Podcast discussing reporting trip to Mexico

January 29, 2021 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

Discussing recent border trip to El Paso and Juarez. … [Read more...] about On the Steve Gruber Show Video Podcast discussing reporting trip to Mexico

Filed Under: Bensman in the News, Uncategorized

Guatemala’s Terrorist Designation of Hizballah Explained

December 7, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

The seemingly incongruous designations are more connected with a broader U.S. strategic initiative to pressure Hizballah’s South America revenue lifelines as the group and its primary sponsor, Iran, reel under harsh U.S. economic sanctions. Hizballah reportedly was facing financial pain because of American sanctions. by Todd Bensman as published December 4, 2020 by the Investigative Project on … [Read more...] about Guatemala’s Terrorist Designation of Hizballah Explained

Filed Under: Terrorism and Homeland Security, Uncategorized Tagged With: Central America, Guatemala, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, terrorism

Massive Stanford Ponzi Scheme Decimates Mexico City’s Jews

September 4, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

 *Recognized as Best Business Story of 2010, Houston Press Club By Todd Bensman as originally published by GlobalPost News in July 2009 SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Over the past 15 years, Kadima, a Jewish charity in Mexico City, has helped developmentally disabled Jews live to their fullest potential. The charity, which has 250 beneficiaries, offers day care for adults with Down Syndrome, and … [Read more...] about Massive Stanford Ponzi Scheme Decimates Mexico City’s Jews

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A Dystopian “Biden Effect:” Now in the Offing on Illegal Immigration

August 23, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

A Biden Effect would look like a sustained migrant crisis in which hundreds of thousands of Central Americans and others from around the world, who have by now fully absorbed Biden campaign promises,  would storm through Mexico once again in vast human caravans. By Todd Bensman as originally published by the Center for Immigration Studies A few months after President Donald Trump’s 2016 … [Read more...] about A Dystopian “Biden Effect:” Now in the Offing on Illegal Immigration

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders, Uncategorized

Idea to Label ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization Neither “Crazy” Nor “Illegal”

June 3, 2020 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

Former President Barack Obama already designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization, in 2016. So President Trump, assuming he knows this, is likely thinking of the much more punitive Foreign Terrorist Organization designation. By Todd Bensman President Donald Tump’s May 31 Tweeted intention to designate “Antifa” as a terrorist organization is neither “crazy” nor … [Read more...] about Idea to Label ANTIFA a Terrorist Organization Neither “Crazy” Nor “Illegal”

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8-Part Series: CIS Investigates Terror Travel Threat in Panama and Costa Rica

December 21, 2019 by Todd Bensman

LINK TO THE SERIES HERE President Donald Trump's claims that Middle Eastern migrants were traveling Central American routes to the U.S. border, among them some Islamic terrorists, spawned a confused national debate that never quite moved past disputes over just the basic facts. Such as: Can, have, and do migrants from countries of terrorism concern, where Islamic terrorist groups operate, … [Read more...] about 8-Part Series: CIS Investigates Terror Travel Threat in Panama and Costa Rica

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence, Uncategorized

Gunrunning to Mexico Part III: Buyers remorseless

July 18, 2019 by Todd Bensman

How “straw purchasers” in the U.S. find a big bang for their buck for Mexico’s drug thugs Crucial to the flow of guns into Mexico are networks of straw buyers — U.S. citizens with clean criminal backgrounds bankrolled by the cartels to shop for guns. Two kinds stalk South Texas: ordinary people with perhaps only a sneaking suspicion about who’s ultimately paying them; and those much more … [Read more...] about Gunrunning to Mexico Part III: Buyers remorseless

Filed Under: Other Border Security Coverage, Uncategorized

Gunrunning to Mexico Part II: The sellers: merchants torn between profit and conscience

July 18, 2019 by Todd Bensman

How flexible laws, a blissful ignorance and profit motive enable U.S. gun retailers to feed Mexico’s bloody civil war International gun trafficking prosecutions against licensed gun dealers are relatively rare. The law provides more protection to sellers than to any other part of the supply chain delivering weapons to Mexico’s drug cartel foot soldiers. Much of the current U.S. law … [Read more...] about Gunrunning to Mexico Part II: The sellers: merchants torn between profit and conscience

Filed Under: Other Border Security Coverage, Uncategorized

Gunrunning to Mexico Part I: Gunrunner’s Land of Plenty

July 18, 2019 by Todd Bensman

These stories document Mexico’s black market hunger for American guns. The hidden cross-border trade is hardly a new phenomenon and for decades has occupied a back burner in the national policies of both countries. But with Mexico’s drug war body count surpassing 6,000 in a single year, 2008, a figure that almost flatters the number of American dead in Iraq, the weapons smuggling issue has been … [Read more...] about Gunrunning to Mexico Part I: Gunrunner’s Land of Plenty

Filed Under: Other Border Security Coverage, Uncategorized

On Conservative Conscience: discussing Hungarian policies that stopped mass migration

April 6, 2019 by Todd Bensman

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

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