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Bensman to Depart Center for Immigration Studies and join Trump Administration: THE EXIT INTERVIEW

May 27, 2025 by Todd Bensman Leave a Comment

Summary

In this week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy, Todd Bensman, the Center’s Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow, discusses his experiences at the Center as he prepares to depart for a new role working with Border Czar Tom Homan. Bensman and host Mark Krikorian reflect on his nearly seven-year tenure at the Center, focusing on his firsthand experiences with border issues, extensively documented in two books authored while at the Center.

Growing out of field research for the Center in Latin America and his graduate studies at the Naval Postgraduate School, Bensman’s first book, America’s Covert Border War, addressed the national security challenges of the border, specifically focusing on “special interest aliens” – i.e. illegal border-crossers from countries where jihadist terror groups operate.

Bensman’s second book, Overrun, is a history of the Biden border crisis, based also on numerous visits to Mexico and Central and South America, where he interviewed hundreds of migrants, officials, aid workers, and others. Bensman uncovered the CBP One program during its pilot phase, prior to its public disclosure, shed light on UN funding for illegal immigration, and provided on-the-ground reporting during significant events such as the Del Rio migrant crisis and the lead-up to the end of Title 42.

In his closing commentary, Krikorian weighed in on the recent admission of several dozen Afrikaners from South Africa into the United States as refugees, highlighting facets of the issue not addressed in most media coverage.

Host

Mark Krikorian is the Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies

Guest

Todd Bensman is the (soon to be former) Senior National Security Fellow.

Referenced in the interview:

Naval Postgraduate School Thesis: The Ultra-Marathoners of Human Smuggling: Defending Forward against Dark Networks that Can Transport Terrorists across American Land Borders

U.S.-Bound Migrants Gambling on a Trump Defeat in November – 2020 Tapachula, Mexico

The Border Crisis Comes to a Once-Quiet Part of Texas: ‘There’s No One Watching,” a smuggler says

Bensman’s Front-Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Even in American History

Why the Huge Migrant Camp Formed in Del Rio, Texas: A Surprising Explanation

A New Beachhead Opens in the Biden Border Crisis: Del Rio

First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack

Benman’s CIS Author Page

Bensman’s Video Playlist

America’s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation’s Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration

Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History

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