Securing U.S. Borders

By Todd Bensman as published March 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — The State of Texas has now joined federal agencies in alleging a vast land sales fraud and foreclosure abuse scheme by the developers of perhaps the largest illegal immigrant colonia in the United States, a 60-square-mile city of at least 50,000 (and up to 75,000) northeast of Houston … [Read more...] about Strange Bedfellows: Texas Joins Biden Admin. in Suing Massive Illegal-Immigrant Development

By Todd Bensman as published March 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies What the administration of President Joe Biden does next will determine if the collapse and total failure of Haiti — a status now accurately assigned to the Caribbean Island nation — sets off a marine mass migration crisis for the United States in the coming weeks. The first boats full of state-collapse … [Read more...] about What Biden Does Next Will Determine Whether a Mass Seaborne Migration Crisis Develops with Haitians

Government press releases don’t acknowledge flight program See Related: Fact Checking the Fact Check: Bensman Reporting Stands, AND: Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports By Todd Bensman as published March 11, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Nearly two dozen House of Representatives lawmakers have cited Center for … [Read more...] about Lawmakers Cite Bensman CIS Report in Demanding End to Secretive Immigrant Flights

By Todd Bensman as published March 7, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Associated Press reporter Elliot Spagat contacted the Center for Immigration Studies on Wednesday seeking comment for a “fact check” about how others, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk, have characterized my March 4 report “Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. … [Read more...] about Fact Checking the Fact Check: Bensman Reporting Stands

DHS won't say which airports are receiving inadmissible aliens from abroad By Todd Bensman as published March 4, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Thanks to an ongoing Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the public now knows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has approved secretive flights that last year alone ferried hundreds of … [Read more...] about Government Admission: Biden Parole Flights Create Security ‘Vulnerabilities’ at U.S. Airports

SIGN UP for Bensman's free newsletter By Todd Bensman as published February 29, 2024 by The New York Post Austin, Texas — A liberal media horde is about to follow President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump to the Texas border, where they’ll no doubt revel in the absence of even a single actual immigrant illegally crossing the border. Rest assured that Biden’s Border Patrol … [Read more...] about NY Post Column: Advice to Press Corps Following Biden and Trump to the Texas Border: JUST LOOK UP

With Abbott shutting down Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, illegal border crossings are spiking down the road on tribal lands. By Todd Bensman as published February 15, 2024 by The Federalist KICKAPOO NATION, Texas — By now, anyone following President Joe Biden’s historic mass illegal immigration has heard about Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s battle with the administration over border fencing at the … [Read more...] about Will The Kickapoo Tribe Be Dragged Into The Abbott-Biden Fray Over Illegal Immigration?

Mexican soldiers like this one across from Eagle Pass Texas say their orders are to round up immigrants in Piedras Negras for 1,500-mile deportations to Mexico’s far south. Photo by Todd Bensman By Todd Bensman as published February 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies A modified version of this story, with video, was published February 11, 2024 by The Daily Mail PIEDRAS … [Read more...] about Inside ‘Zone 47’: Biden’s Ruthless Mexico Immigration Crackdown is Working but He Won’t Own It

By Todd Bensman as published in January 2024 Volume 53, Issue 1 The following is adapted from a talk delivered on January 22, 2024, at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. In 1960, the Eisenhower administration began counting the number of foreign nationals … [Read more...] about Essay in Hillsdale College’s ‘Imprimis’: An Immigration Crisis Beyond Imagining by Todd Bensman

The Center for Immigration Studies presents the video “European Lessons for America’s Mass Migration Crisis” and a companion podcast, offering key findings from a European field-research trip by Todd Bensman, the Center’s national security fellow. This Week’s episode of the Parsing Immigration Podcast offers key findings from a European field-research trip by Todd Bensman, the Center’s national … [Read more...] about Video Report from Europe’s Crowded Migration Trails – AND PODCAST: The EU’s New Mass Migration Crisis