As published August 10, 2026 by The Daily Signal The great Ceuta mass migration crisis—during which a human tsunami of 72,000 North Africans swamped the Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast on July 30 and 31—could easily have lasted for months. However, it is all over but for some mopping up. Few, if any more, are coming or adding to the death toll of 75. Most of those who crashed the European Union’s gates at … [Read More...] about Did Spain Go Full Trump to End the Ceuta Mass Migration Crisis?
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Securing America’s Borders
Trump Is Running Out Of Time To End Asylum Abuse
The Trump administration can and must permanently improve asylum integrity, or risk our border looking like Spain again. As published August 4, 2026 by The Federalist The most powerful people-magnet on Earth was at the root of last week’s epic mass migration event that swamped Ceuta, Spain’s city enclave on the Moroccan … [Read more...] about Trump Is Running Out Of Time To End Asylum Abuse
Terrorism and Homeland Security
‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crosser’s 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-Crosser’s Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Bensman Departs Trump Administration, Joins The Heritage Foundation Border Security and Immigration Center as Senior Fellow
PRESS RELEASE JUNE 30, 2026: Heritage Foundation Welcomes New Senior Research Fellow for Heritage Border Security and Immigration Center WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation welcomes Todd Bensman as a new Senior Research Fellow for the Heritage Foundation Border Security and Immigration Center, where he will support Heritage’s mission to defend American national security and the rule of … [Read more...] about Bensman Departs Trump Administration, Joins The Heritage Foundation Border Security and Immigration Center as Senior Fellow
Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History 2021-2025
In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 Todd Bensman explores the causes, consequences, and experience of the mass-migration crisis he was first to predict 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 … [Read more...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History 2021-2025