Todd Bensman

From Journalism to Counterterrorism Intelligence - and Back.

Covid Jumps the Mexico Border

How CBP Is Moving to End an Incoming Covid Wave From Mexico

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Of the 1,867 CBP employees who have tested positive for Covid-19, 773 work in Texas and another 491 about split between California and Arizona. Their infections, as well as the tragedy of Agent Marco Gonzales and other agents who died of Covid in South Texas serve as a reminder to Americans that new Border Patrol agents now flooding the Texas zone will be putting their lives on the line to keep … [Read more...] about How CBP Is Moving to End an Incoming Covid Wave From Mexico

On Lifezette’s The Hot Zone about Covid-19 refugees crossing over the Mexico border

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Watch the interview here Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Todd Bensman has been following the explosion of COVID-19 cases being imported from Mexico, leading to huge spikes in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. It's a HUGE story that the mainstream press has all but ignored. … [Read more...] about On Lifezette’s The Hot Zone about Covid-19 refugees crossing over the Mexico border

Talking Antifa and Covid Border Patrol Fatalities on Secure Freedom Radio

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August 13, 2020 episode. TODD BENSMAN, Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, Writing Fellow, Middle East Forum, Author, the Federalist: The ongoing riots taking place in PortlandSpikes in coronavirus cases in southern border statesThe need to show support for federal border patrol agents … [Read more...] about Talking Antifa and Covid Border Patrol Fatalities on Secure Freedom Radio

As Mexican Hospitals Collapse, American Border Ones Fill

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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

Time for a US Medical Aid Relief Operation to Mexico and Tightening the Covid “Border Closure”

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By Todd Bensman as originally published November 17 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — Two irrefutable facts militate for an immediate re-do of President Donald Trump’s original Coronavirus-containment closure order for the U.S.-Mexico border: - Mexicans sick with the virus have overrun hospitals in their own cities along the border, such as in Ciudad … [Read more...] about Time for a US Medical Aid Relief Operation to Mexico and Tightening the Covid “Border Closure”

Homeland Security Today: Coronavirus Patients from Mexico Crossing Border and Straining US Hospitals

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Mexicans sick with the virus have overrun hospitals in their own cities since at least May 2020 to the point that Mexican facilities became unable to care for new patients. Left with no care on the Mexico side, significant numbers of Covid-sick patients with green cards, dual citizenship, or border-crossing passes have exploited legal loop holes in President Trump’s March … [Read more...] about Homeland Security Today: Coronavirus Patients from Mexico Crossing Border and Straining US Hospitals