Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan also suggested that other numbers of infected illegal migrants (40,000 were apprehended in July) were using evasion tactics "for their own economic endeavors" and are presumed to be infecting large numbers of working illegal migrants they later join inside the United States. By Todd Bensman as originally published on August 7, 2020 Amid profound Covid-19 … [Read more...] about CBP Chief: Covid-Infected Illegal Migrants Being Taken to US Border Hospitals While CPB Personnel Dying of Virus in the Line of Duty
Securing U.S. Borders
For Townhall: The Covid-infected Are Fleeing Mexico…for US Hospitals
By Todd Bensman as originally published July 23, 2020 in Townhall Media Last month, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey uttered forbidden words that drew such hot-stove backlash that neither he nor any other border state governor has dared repeat them. Mexican Covid patients with dual U.S. citizenship, Ducey told President Trump’s coronavirus task force during a June 22 governor’s conference … [Read more...] about For Townhall: The Covid-infected Are Fleeing Mexico…for US Hospitals
Rare Reveal: Mass Asylum Fraud at the Southern Border
NPR reporter Lauren Frayer published a report July 9 that is rather remarkable in that it lays bare for a broad listening (and reading) audience exactly how thousands of Indian migrants, all largely coming for jobs and lifestyle, game the asylum system by posing as persecuted torture victims at the border. By Todd Bensman as published July 16, 2020 by the Center for Immigration … [Read more...] about Rare Reveal: Mass Asylum Fraud at the Southern Border
Members of Congress Request Information about Covid Patient Imports from Mexico
Finally, three members of Congress have moved to pick up where the media failed in filling this important gap in our knowledge, with a letter to Acting Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf requesting answers to 13 questions about who is crossing from Mexico for U.S. treatment. Separately, the Center for Immigration Studies has filed FOIA requests. By Todd Bensman as published … [Read more...] about Members of Congress Request Information about Covid Patient Imports from Mexico
The Texas Covid Spike: An Argument to Revamp Trump’s Emergency Border Closure – Right Now
By Todd Bensman as originally published July 7, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – The narrative about the current State of Texas Covid-19 crisis goes like this: Fault for the escalating spike in hospitalizations that have overwhelmed care facilities falls squarely on Gov. Greg Abbott’s phased reopening and also the cavalier partying of bar patrons and Spring-break … [Read more...] about The Texas Covid Spike: An Argument to Revamp Trump’s Emergency Border Closure – Right Now
Mounting Evidence Points to Covid Refugees from Mexico as a Major Factor in Border-State Spikes
States appear to be transporting many to interior facilities to keep bed space free on the border as the influx continues, adding to the impression that these imported patients were infected inside the United States due to lifting lock-downs rather than in Mexico, where few social distancing measures were implemented. By Todd Bensman as published on June 24, 2020 by the Center for … [Read more...] about Mounting Evidence Points to Covid Refugees from Mexico as a Major Factor in Border-State Spikes
Border Patrol Reportedly Transporting Covid-Sick Border-Crossers to US Hospitals and Becoming Infected
Mexico’s hospitals reportedly are overwhelmed, so “huge numbers of them (infected people in Mexico) are coming just to seek medical attention,” one Border Patrol agent told me, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Agents are getting exposed and testing positive.” By Todd Bensman as originally published June 18, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies Major U.S. media organizations have … [Read more...] about Border Patrol Reportedly Transporting Covid-Sick Border-Crossers to US Hospitals and Becoming Infected
Are Covid-Sick Foreign Nationals Crossing from Mexico to Take Empty American Hospital Beds?
Fair Question: Are covid-infected foreign nationals from Central America, Mexico and other nations around the world illegally crossing the U.S. southern border to take beds and care — at U.S. taxpayer expense — that American citizens suffered terrible economic lock downs to free up for Americans? Media coverage assigns an influx to legal Mexican "green card holders and Americans living in Mexico. … [Read more...] about Are Covid-Sick Foreign Nationals Crossing from Mexico to Take Empty American Hospital Beds?
Let’s Not Forget That a Whole New “Dreamer” Generation Is Waiting in the Wings Probably a million children soon enough will be seen and heard
No one has noticed the spinning political football heading right for the nation's nose, probably more than a million-strong new "dreamer" generation imported during the 2019 mass migration crisis from Central America. Surely, the parents and guardians of these hundreds of thousands of new dreamer children are watching closely for what we do with the grownup dreamer children. By Todd Bensman as … [Read more...] about Let’s Not Forget That a Whole New “Dreamer” Generation Is Waiting in the Wings Probably a million children soon enough will be seen and heard
How the Syria-born Jihadist attacker at Corpus Christi Naval Air Base Entered the United States
Family immigration of the sort that Adam and his mother used to enter calls for minimal security vetting. Foreign nationals with conferred or “retained” U.S. citizenship, particularly if they were driven from a foreign war are fast-tracked in like any American citizen caught up in a troubled area. By Todd Bensman as originally published by the Center for Immigration Studies May 22, … [Read more...] about How the Syria-born Jihadist attacker at Corpus Christi Naval Air Base Entered the United States