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 Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack,” includes the first and only interview with its Jewish … [Read More...] about ‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
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Securing America’s Borders
“Injustice Porn”: Get Ready for the Next Big Thing on the Immigration Front
Time for Americans to recognize it as political manipulation, call it out as exploitative, and push back By Todd Bensman AUSTIN, Texas – Anyone wondering what kind of skullduggery is afoot to defeat the new Trump Administration’s imminent deportation operations need look no further than Bakersfield in the Central Valley of … [Read more...] about “Injustice Porn”: Get Ready for the Next Big Thing on the Immigration Front
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Egyptian Student Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database
Arrested for plot to bomb Israeli consulate in N.Y., adjudicators missed evidence of online extremism By Todd Bensman as published January 10, 2025 by the Center for Immigration Studies An 18-year-old Egyptian student at Virginia’s George Mason University who now stands charged with multiple terrorism offenses related to a … [Read more...] about Egyptian Student Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
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
Bensman in Mexico’s Deep South
In this video from home, Bensman explains why he traveled to deep southern Mexico in October 2024. He is the first American writer to take stock of a Biden-Harris administration-engineered "Gaza Strip' created to hem up aspiring U.S. border crossers whose crossings en mass would have wrecked the Democrat Party's re-election November 5. As a result of a diplomatic deal struck when no one was … [Read more...] about Bensman in Mexico’s Deep South