The Recurring Coronavirus Coincidence By Todd Bensman as originally published October 27 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — In El Paso County across from Juarez, Mexico, hospitals once again are buckling under the weight of a new Covid-19 case influx of 300 percent in just the past three weeks, drawing intense media coverage in recent days. Hospitals … [Read more...] about As Mexican Hospitals Collapse, American Border Ones Fill
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US-Bound Yemeni Migrants and their Smuggler Busted in Brazil
Operations like this are akin to blowing immigrant-smuggling bridges that connect terrorism countries, like Yemen, to the southern border and make it possible for terrorists to cross. “Not only was the human smuggler apprehended, but we were able to identify nine special interest aliens who are a potential threat to our national security.” By Todd Bensman as originally published October 21, … [Read more...] about US-Bound Yemeni Migrants and their Smuggler Busted in Brazil
Repeat Border Crossers Driving Those Border Apprehension Spikes: They’re Not Real
The increase in the apprehension statistics is largely the result of the same people trying again and again to sneak across the border, in part because the government is not subjecting repeat crossers to criminal prosecution or other deterrents for fear of spreading Covid-19. By Todd Bensman on as published October 16, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies U.S. Customs and Border … [Read more...] about Repeat Border Crossers Driving Those Border Apprehension Spikes: They’re Not Real
Department of Homeland Security Threat Assessment Also Predicts Mass Migration Crisis
DHS's much-anticipated inaugural national threat assessment predicts a mass migration surge next year from Central and South America but also from outside the western hemisphere. Among the latter will be unspecified national security “threat actors,” a likely reference, in part, to terrorist travelers who would stand a better chance of disappearing in the huge crowds. By Todd Bensman as … [Read more...] about Department of Homeland Security Threat Assessment Also Predicts Mass Migration Crisis
VIDEO immigration brief: The Next Migrant Caravan
A New video from the Center for Immigration Studies shows the latest migrant caravan from Honduras, some 4,000 strong, looking as though it would break through Guatemalan police on its way north to the American border. But Guatemalan police later regrouped and disrupted the caravan, bussing most of the migrants home. But circumstances could be very, very different for the very next migrant … [Read more...] about VIDEO immigration brief: The Next Migrant Caravan
Preventing Espionage and Terrorism: The Real Purpose Behind Trump’s Proposals for Foreign Student and Exchange Visitor Visas
The way the programs are run now, the proposal explains, undermines U.S. national security “due to reduced opportunities for direct vetting of foreign academic students by immigration officers. But it also places research universities and the nation at risk for economic, academic, or military espionage by foreign students and exchange visitors.” By Todd Bensman as published October 1, 2020 by … [Read more...] about Preventing Espionage and Terrorism: The Real Purpose Behind Trump’s Proposals for Foreign Student and Exchange Visitor Visas
Iranian Migrant Smuggler Busted Amid new Iran Retaliation Threats for US Killing of Top General
The Brazilian bust of a smuggler who specialized in transporting Iranian migrants over the US southern border is auspicious because it occurs amid heightened American vigilance that Iran will carry out its threats of violent retaliation for the January 2020 US drone-strike killing of Top Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. By Todd Bensman as originally published September 22, 2020 by the Center for … [Read more...] about Iranian Migrant Smuggler Busted Amid new Iran Retaliation Threats for US Killing of Top General
A Smuggler of Sri Lankan Migrants Is Busted
By Todd Bensman as originally published August 31, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies The horrific Islamic jihadist bombings that killed more than 300 Sri Lankan Christians celebrating Easter in April 2019 had to have been on the forefront of U.S. investigators' minds when they received word some months later that Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) authorities intercepted a Haitian sloop … [Read more...] about A Smuggler of Sri Lankan Migrants Is Busted
A Dystopian “Biden Effect:” Now in the Offing on Illegal Immigration
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
In Europe, Migrant-Terrorist Strikes Continue
Europe’s tragic experience with refugee resettlement from Muslim-majority nations holds lessons for American homeland security strategists and policy-makers, especially the extent to which security vetting is incorporated as a central component in any national strategy to manage border-crossing migrants arriving as strangers without identification at the U.S.-Mexico border. By Todd Bensman as … [Read more...] about In Europe, Migrant-Terrorist Strikes Continue