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Covid Jumps the Mexico Border

Are Covid-Sick Foreign Nationals Crossing from Mexico to Take Empty American Hospital Beds?

June 9, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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?

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Border Patrol Reportedly Transporting Covid-Sick Border-Crossers to US Hospitals and Becoming Infected

June 19, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Mounting Evidence Points to Covid Refugees from Mexico as a Major Factor in Border-State Spikes

June 25, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

Members of Congress Request Information about Covid Patient Imports from Mexico

July 13, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

For Townhall: The Covid-infected Are Fleeing Mexico…for US Hospitals

July 29, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

CBP Chief: Covid-Infected Illegal Migrants Being Taken to US Border Hospitals While CPB Personnel Dying of Virus in the Line of Duty

August 10, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

The Texas Covid Spike: An Argument to Revamp Trump’s Emergency Border Closure – Right Now

July 5, 2020 by Todd Bensman

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

Filed Under: Securing America's Borders

CBP Launches Major Operation in Texas to Catch Covid-Sickened Illegal Immigrants Entering From Mexico; Trump Considers Closing Border Exemptions

August 14, 2020 by Todd Bensman

The new CBP operation on the Texas border confirms a phenomenon that senior government officials and media have studiously avoided addressing about sharp Covid spikes in border states like Texas: that significant numbers of illegal immigrants crossing to work in the country's black market economy are sick with Covid-19. "Even though some of the illegal aliens know, or highly suspect, that they … [Read more...] about CBP Launches Major Operation in Texas to Catch Covid-Sickened Illegal Immigrants Entering From Mexico; Trump Considers Closing Border Exemptions

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Cited in Tribune Newspaper Editorial

July 15, 2020 by Todd Bensman

Stop the Southern Covid19 Surge Cover-up The Need for Discernment and Speaking Out By Mike Scruggs- On Wednesday, July 15, more than 70 U.S. Army soldiers of the 44th Medical Brigade were airlifted from Fort Bragg in North Carolina to McAllen, Texas. McAllen is on the Texas border with Mexico. According to Lt. Col. Colin Frament, commander of the 528th Field Hospital, the primary … [Read more...] about Cited in Tribune Newspaper Editorial

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Talking about Covid on the border with Secure Freedom Radio

July 22, 2020 by Todd Bensman

Secure Freedom Radio Podcast HOME PAGERSSABOUT With Todd Bensman, Fred Fleitz, John Mills and Kevin Freeman July 21st, 2020 Listen here: TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist: What is "mass asylum fraud"?Public health issues associated with illegal immigration … [Read more...] about Talking about Covid on the border with Secure Freedom Radio

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