On or about August 16, Mexico's Federal Ministerial Police issued a rare and most curious public announcement: Mexican immigration had apprehended an American citizen who was wanted on an Interpol "blue notice" warrant on suspicion of supporting violent jihad and radical Islam on digital platforms. The man, identified by Mexican media as "Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa", was found and arrested … [Read more...] about An American Jihadist Caught in Mexico: What we know
Securing U.S. Borders
Under Trump’s “Wait in Mexico” Policy, While Some Migrants Go Home, Others Turn and Crash the Border
By Todd Bensman as published August 16, 2019 by the Center for Immigration Studies PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — Last month in Juarez, I interviewed Central American migrants planning to return to their home countries rather than waiting in Mexico for U.S. asylum hearings. More than 25,000 of them had been ejected under President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy. In a July 22 … [Read more...] about Under Trump’s “Wait in Mexico” Policy, While Some Migrants Go Home, Others Turn and Crash the Border
The Domestic Terror Threat That has ICE in Cross-hairs
"I could tell anybody first hand, anybody who works for ICE looks like the most miserable piece of [expletive] on Earth. They all look like demons. I don't know what it's like to work for ICE, but they don't look like humans anymore." -- Sergio Salazar, San Antonio DACA student suspected of using the Internet to incite an ICE bombing in 2018, speaking in a podcast interview from Mexico A full … [Read more...] about The Domestic Terror Threat That has ICE in Cross-hairs
Former Afghan Interpreter Smuggled Afghan ‘National Security Threat’ Over Texas-Mexico Border: Here’s What We Know
An Afghan granted immigration status in America is accused of helping to smuggling in at least two fellow Afghans over the Mexico border. One was deemed a national security threat. Why cases like these demonstrate that the U.S. southern border is vulnerable to much worse than drug smuggling and illegal immigration from Honduras. By Todd Bensman as published by the Center for Immigration … [Read more...] about Former Afghan Interpreter Smuggled Afghan ‘National Security Threat’ Over Texas-Mexico Border: Here’s What We Know
Major Smuggler of Immigrants from Mideast, Africa, etc. Arrested in Costa Rica
The national security significance of this operation is not explained in media reporting, that Mama Africa, long-targeted Nicaraguan smuggler based in Costa Rica, was finally busted after years of American pursuit. She specialized in moving “special-interest aliens” from terror-prone nations like Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. By Todd Bensman as … [Read more...] about Major Smuggler of Immigrants from Mideast, Africa, etc. Arrested in Costa Rica
Update on the Crowd-Funded Border Wall in New Mexico; More Construction and Controversy on the Way
What the We Build the Wall people wrought with their half-mile fence, aside from the claim that it cut off some 20 cartel smuggling pathways, is a hard symbolic proof of concept. This has motivated American donors and workers, believing they know what is right for the nation, to defeat Washington stalemate and obstructionist "open-borders left" and show a wall can be built better, faster, and … [Read more...] about Update on the Crowd-Funded Border Wall in New Mexico; More Construction and Controversy on the Way
On the Ground in Juarez, Mexico: Trump “Remain in Mexico” policy working as UN buses load up Central Americans for rides home. But for how long?
In Juarez, confirmation that Trump's Remain in Mexico policy is driving asylum claimant decisions to return home. In two Juarez city shelters, a Honduran mother of two children, a young single Honduran woman, and a young single man from Guatemalan say they're going home rather than to lose the prospect of living illegally in the United States. Bensman interviewing a Honduran asylum seeker in … [Read more...] about On the Ground in Juarez, Mexico: Trump “Remain in Mexico” policy working as UN buses load up Central Americans for rides home. But for how long?
The Next Influx: Africans
By Todd Bensman originally published by the Center for Immigration Studies on July 1, 2019 Like the proverbial "bulge in the belly of the snake," unusually high numbers of non-Latino migrants, obviously not from Central America, are now reportedly passing from Colombia through Panama on their way to the U.S. southern border. Their numbers range to the tens of thousands, whose … [Read more...] about The Next Influx: Africans
Assessing the Report of Four ISIS Terrorist Suspects Caught in Nicaragua
One of the four is said to be a convicted murderer in Iraq serving a life sentence. The others? We'll have to wait for an investigation to run its course and, once it does, the public may well never be told of the outcome for a very wrong and unfortunate reason: If past experience indicates future behavior, this is a story that major American news media with the biggest audience shares are going … [Read more...] about Assessing the Report of Four ISIS Terrorist Suspects Caught in Nicaragua
Enhanced Security Vetting Required Now for Congolese Immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border
An ISIS franchise in the Democratic Republic of Congo and rampaging militias engaged in massacres, kidnapping, and torture warrants enhanced vetting of hundreds of Congolese young men crossing the U.S. southern border. Government must pause from the chaos of the Central American influx and ensure that migrants from Central Africa are not as quickly released into the interior. Greater vetting … [Read more...] about Enhanced Security Vetting Required Now for Congolese Immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border