By Todd Bensman as published July 13 by The Daily Signal AUSTIN, Texas – The close timing of two high-casualty earthquakes in Venezuela on June 24 and a June 25 Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump Administration to deport some 605,000 US-based Venezuelans has given rise to a mounting pressure campaign arguing that President Trump must, on moral grounds, let them stay. Seizing on one tragic event where some 100 just-deported Venezuelans … [Read More...] about False Narrative Alert: How Dare Trump Deport Venezuelans to Earthquake ‘Hell’
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Securing America’s Borders
False Narrative Alert: How Dare Trump Deport Venezuelans to Earthquake ‘Hell’
By Todd Bensman as published July 13 by The Daily Signal AUSTIN, Texas – The close timing of two high-casualty earthquakes in Venezuela on June 24 and a June 25 Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump Administration to deport some 605,000 US-based Venezuelans has given rise to a mounting pressure campaign arguing that President … [Read more...] about False Narrative Alert: How Dare Trump Deport Venezuelans to Earthquake ‘Hell’
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