Special Note to readers: On June 2, 2025, I took my oath to protect and defend the United States and began serving as a senior adviser/White House Administration assigned to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office of Director, where I'll be serving DHS leadership, including Border Czar Tom Homan. This obviously means I've also left the great Center for Immigration Studies after nearly seven very productive and interesting years of … [Read More...] about Bensman Departs Center for Immigration Studies and joins Trump Administration as Senior Adviser: THE EXIT INTERVIEW
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Securing America’s Borders
Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
See Todd Bensman's: Front Line Field Reports, 2021-2025, from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History The Greatest Mass Migration Crisis in US History is Over I declare its end not as a government official empowered with any special authority to do so, but as someone who accurately foretold the … [Read more...] about Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
Terrorism and Homeland Security
‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
Washington, D.C. (January 9, 2025) – Todd Bensman's new three-part investigative series, along with a companion podcast (his media interviews and full stories here), document the first known charged terror attack in the United States committed by an illegal border-crosser, on October 26, 2024 in Chicago. The series, titled “First … [Read more...] about ‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
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 was swelling again on the so-called "Balkan … [Read more...] about Dispatches From Europe’s New Mass Migration Crisis: What America Can Learn
Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
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, consequences, and experience 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 2020 presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet … [Read more...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History