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On Global Patriot Radio’s The Sutliffian Report discussing Europe’s migrant-terrorist border-crossers

February 22, 2020 by Todd Bensman

Tonight we have Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies sharing about an important article he wrote in November on What Terrorist Migration Over European Borders Can Teach About American Border Security.Todd Bensman is a patriot whose important work should be effecting our immigration policies here in the USA and hopefully awakening the sleeping governments in … [Read more...] about On Global Patriot Radio’s The Sutliffian Report discussing Europe’s migrant-terrorist border-crossers

Filed Under: Bensman in the News, Securing America's Borders

House Envy: The Unacknowledged Real Motivation Behind Guatemala’s Mass Migration to the American Border

February 21, 2020 by Todd Bensman

Human rights activists, migrant advocates, and the news media consistently cite extreme widespread violence and rampant government persecution of indigenous populations for Guatemala emigration to claim asylum at the U.S. border. Not in emblematic Yalambojoch. What drove people to evacuate this typical highland village was desire to send enough money home to build big houses like their neighbor's, … [Read more...] about House Envy: The Unacknowledged Real Motivation Behind Guatemala’s Mass Migration to the American Border

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Gatestone Institute Cites Bensman Study: “The Terrorists Migrating Into Europe”

February 18, 2020 by Todd Bensman

In a new analysis by the Gatestone Institute’s International Policy Council, Distinguished Senior Fellow Judith Bergman extensively cites my research paper released in November “What Terrorist Migration Over European Borders Can Teach About American Border Security” to argue that the EU is misguided in initiating legal proceedings against three of its members for halting mass migration from … [Read more...] about Gatestone Institute Cites Bensman Study: “The Terrorists Migrating Into Europe”

Filed Under: Bensman in the News, Securing America's Borders

U.S. Lays Out Welcome Mat for Middle Eastern and “Extra-Continental” Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them: An Immigration Policy Disconnect

February 6, 2020 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman as originally published February 5, 2020 by Creative Destruction Media TAPACHULA, Mexico – The matronly Mexican entrepreneur bustling to and fro in her seedy downtown restaurant is proud of the legacy embossed on the walls of her first eatery next door, but especially of the nickname – “Mama Africa” – that still has customers along a global underground railroad seeking her out … [Read more...] about U.S. Lays Out Welcome Mat for Middle Eastern and “Extra-Continental” Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them: An Immigration Policy Disconnect

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence, Securing America's Borders

Why 40,000 Migrants a Month Still Reach the U.S. Border: ‘Polleros’ Bypassing Mexican National Guard

January 30, 2020 by Todd Bensman

By many measures, the Mexican deployment of National Guard to roadblocks throughout the country's south has worked something like a miracle. But officials on the ground admit smugglers are figuring out ways around them. Indigenous Tzetzol natives called "polleros" are helping up to 40,000 migrants a month make it to the U.S. southern border. By Todd Bensman as originally published January 31, … [Read more...] about Why 40,000 Migrants a Month Still Reach the U.S. Border: ‘Polleros’ Bypassing Mexican National Guard

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence, Securing America's Borders

Video Report: Immigration Disconnect: U.S. Woos Middle Easterners and “Extra-Continental” Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them

January 30, 2020 by Todd Bensman

By Todd Bensman as published January 29, 2020 by the Center for Immigration Studies Officials high and low say that extra-continental migrants from the Middle East and everywhere else are exempt from the stew of new policies President Donald Trump has implemented mainly to deter Central Americans. Senior and lower-ranking DHS officials confirm that President Trump’s much-credited “Wait in … [Read more...] about Video Report: Immigration Disconnect: U.S. Woos Middle Easterners and “Extra-Continental” Migrants While Mexico Blocks Them

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence, Securing America's Borders

Video: Why the 2020 Caravans Threaten the Fragile Success of Trump’s Border Policies

January 25, 2020 by Todd Bensman

Should even one of these testing, probing caravans be allowed to find and exploit a breach in the Mexican defense, or should President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) falter for a moment, many more will no doubt rise follow their predecessors through the breach. That's why the outcome of these battles between migrants and Mexican police and troops matter greatly to immediate future border … [Read more...] about Video: Why the 2020 Caravans Threaten the Fragile Success of Trump’s Border Policies

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence, Securing America's Borders

The Trump-Defeat-Gamble: U.S.-Bound Migrants in Mexico Calculating a Trump Electoral Defeat

January 19, 2020 by Todd Bensman

Dozens of politically woke migrants say their decisions to stay in Mexico are predicated on a Trump-defeat calculus. As Mexico has recently required of them, migrants will apply for Mexican asylum and wait for a long process of approval, then live for awhile in that country, in a gambit that Trump will be defeated in the November 2020 national U.S. election. Then, the calculus goes, the Democrats … [Read more...] about The Trump-Defeat-Gamble: U.S.-Bound Migrants in Mexico Calculating a Trump Electoral Defeat

Filed Under: Foreign Correspondence, Securing America's Borders

Big Media Miss: CBP Chief Says ‘Extra-Continental’ Migration a 2020 Priority

January 6, 2020 by Todd Bensman

"What we are seeing, though, is a change in the demographics... (The cartels) are shifting toward supporting additional migration from extra-continental countries, as well as Mexican nationals. I mean Indians, Africans, Haitians, Brazilians. I mean, the list goes on and on and on. That's what we refer to as extra-continental, other than Northern Triangle countries." By Todd … [Read more...] about Big Media Miss: CBP Chief Says ‘Extra-Continental’ Migration a 2020 Priority

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Six-Month AP Investigation of Migrant-Smuggling Business in Mexico Reveals Potency of Trump Policies

January 1, 2020 by Todd Bensman

A newly published Associated Press story about illegal immigration to the U.S. southern border seems to delight in reminding readers that cartel-linked smugglers are still making money despite President Trump's "crackdown." But instead, the AP unintentionally lauds "new Trump administration policies" and the resulting "dramatic policy changes on both sides of the border" for having "reduced the … [Read more...] about Six-Month AP Investigation of Migrant-Smuggling Business in Mexico Reveals Potency of Trump Policies

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

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