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Todd Bensman

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Bensman Departs Center Immigration Studies and joins Trump Administration as Senior Adviser: THE EXIT INTERVIEW

Published June 2, 2025

Special Note to readers: On June 2, 2025, I took my oath to protect and defend the United States and began serving as a senior adviser/White House Administration assigned to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where I'll be serving the Border Czar and other senior Department of Homeland Security leadership as needed. This obviously means I've also left the great Center for Immigration Studies after nearly seven very productive and … [Read More...] about Bensman Departs Center Immigration Studies and joins Trump Administration as Senior Adviser: THE EXIT INTERVIEW

Securing America’s Borders

The Missing Argument for Sending Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Demonstrators Packing

Published June 1, 2025

A comparison with Jane Fonda helps explain why Mahmoud Khalil and others like him must go. By Todd Bensman as published May 15 by The American Mind President Donald Trump’s Administration has mostly defended its efforts to deport visa-holding foreign students on the grounds that the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) … [Read more...] about The Missing Argument for Sending Foreign Anti-Israel Campus Demonstrators Packing

Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025

Published May 29, 2025

An old 2001 news story by then-reporter Bensman offers context to Trump’s admission of White South African refugees: “White Zimbabweans Seek Asylum”

Published May 18, 2025

The Federalist: Where Was Democrats’ Outrage When Obama And Biden Deported Illegal Alien Housekeepers And Gardeners?

Published May 8, 2025

NY Post: Trump’s Signature 100-Day Achievement: Border Crisis End

Published April 30, 2025

The Daily Wire: Prison First, Deportation Later: Trump Revives Criminal Penalties For Border Jumpers

Published April 8, 2025

Then and Now at the Southern Border

Published April 5, 2025

Securing American's Borders Archives

Terrorism and Homeland Security

NY Post: FBI finally investigating terror attack against Jews by illegal border crosser

Published May 7, 2025

By Todd Bensman as published May 7, 2025 by The New York Post Nearly seven months have elapsed since an illegal immigrant from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania shot and wounded a visibly Orthodox Jewish man in the Chicago terror attack on October 26, then engaged police in a furious firefight while screaming the terrorist war … [Read more...] about NY Post: FBI finally investigating terror attack against Jews by illegal border crosser

Town Hall: Marjorie Taylor Green’s Border Counterterrorism Idea: Her ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Bill Deserves Dem Support

Published April 12, 2025

Enhancing National Security: CIS Vetting Failure Database

Published March 6, 2025

Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order, a 3-Part Analysis of the Most Interesting of Trump’s Executive Orders

Published February 14, 2025

‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community

Published February 14, 2025

Egyptian Student Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database

Published January 10, 2025

Afghan Evacuee Added to Vetting Failures Database

Published December 16, 2024

Terrorism and Homeland Security Archives

DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS

Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025

Published May 29, 2025

See Todd Bensman's: Front Line Field Reports, 2021-2025, from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History The Greatest Mass Migration Crisis in US History is Over I declare its end not as a government official empowered with any special authority to do so, but as someone who accurately foretold the coming crisis before it began in 2020 and 2021 and then, … [Read more...] about Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025

‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community

Published February 14, 2025

Washington, D.C. (January 9, 2025) – Todd Bensman's new three-part investigative series, along with a companion podcast (his media interviews and full stories here), document the first known charged terror attack in the United States committed by an illegal border-crosser, on October 26, 2024 in Chicago. The series, titled “First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack,” includes … [Read more...] about ‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community

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Last Interview: From Journalist to Trump Administration Senior Adviser – Hearts of Oak Podcast

Coffee and a Mike Podcast: Feds to Deputize Local Cops to make Immigration Arrests – Todd Bensman

Hold the Line (Adult in the Room) podcast: The Border Crisis in Trump’s Second Term

Bensman on ‘Redacted’ Show with ‘Bombshells’: CIA coming for the Mexico drug cartels, ‘Trump may be aching to go unilateral here’

​On One America News’ Fine Point: Ideas for “Mass Deportations” & More

On Fox Business News: Trump’s First 100 Days, Achievements and Challenges (Transcript)

Bensman weighs in on Fox Business News: The Border is Under Control; Supreme Court Halt to Trump’s Venezuelan deports, and More. (Transcript)

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Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History

In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Todd Bensman explores the causes, consequences, and experience of the mass-migration crisis he predicted in a November 2020 column titled "Will We See a 'Biden Effect' at the Border?" The crisis began several months before the 2020 presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet that Joe Biden would win and open the border to … [Read More...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History

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