In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Todd Bensman explores the causes and consequences of the mass-migration crisis he predicted in a November 2020 column titled "Will We See a 'Biden Effect' at the Border?" The crisis began several months before the national presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet that Joe Biden would win and open the border to them. … [Read More...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
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Securing America’s Borders
NY Mayor Mute on Biden Migrant Flights of 33,000 but Loud on Texas Busing of 37,000
Still laying sole blame on Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's busing program By Todd Bensman as published April 8, 2024 by The New York Post Mayor Eric Adams keeps blaming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as the culprit responsible for the city’s migrant crisis, which has hoovered up millions in taxpayer resources. In the … [Read more...] about NY Mayor Mute on Biden Migrant Flights of 33,000 but Loud on Texas Busing of 37,000
Terrorism and Homeland Security
How Did A Migrant On The FBI’s Terrorist Watch List Get To North Carolina?
Only after Awet Hagos was arrested on assault and weapons charges in North Carolina did ICE run fingerprints and find that he was on the terror watch list. By Todd Bensman as published March 20,2024 in The Federalist AUSTIN, Texas — With an immigrant terrorism scare far from the U.S.-Mexico border amid the worst mass … [Read more...] about How Did A Migrant On The FBI’s Terrorist Watch List Get To North Carolina?
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
From November 22 through December 22 of 2023, Bensman traveled extensively throughout Central Europe and the Balkan nations as a Visiting Fellow for the Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium's' Migration Research Institute. He traveled to Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia, and Greece. The reason? Big human traffic is swelling again on the so-called "Balkan … [Read more...] about Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
Border Wars Video Podcast Features Bensman in In-Depth Interview
"Todd takes us through his twenty-plus years of experience" Joseph Humire, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society came to Austin, Texas to interview me for his smash hit "Border Wars" Video Podcast. His description: "The unprecedented crisis on America's southern border has enormous ramifications for U.S. national security. None more urgent than the significant rise of … [Read more...] about Border Wars Video Podcast Features Bensman in In-Depth Interview