El Salvador has launched a ‘Reverse Migration’ campaign with tax breaks to lure U.S. Salvadorans home to build a booming economy and fill acute labor shortages. By Todd Bensman as published September 24, 2026 in The Federalist Advocates of Salvadorans remaining in the United States must have felt relief recently when the Trump administration effectively stayed plans to terminate the endlessly renewed “Temporary” Protected Status that has … [Read More...] about Booming El Salvador Begs Its U.S. People To Return, But False Media Narratives Prevail About Their Deportation
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Securing America’s Borders
Trump Attacks Cartels at the Root
A game changer in the administration’s shadow war. By Todd Bensman as published September 23, 2026 by The American Mind Amid the Iran War and midterm U.S. electioneering, most Americans probably missed a potentially game-changing shift in President Donald Trump’s war against Mexico’s drug cartels. The administration has … [Read more...] about Trump Attacks Cartels at the Root
Terrorism and Homeland Security
On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Cut the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
By Todd Bensman as published in The Daily Signal As America prepares to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, expect a bright, glaring omission in the upcoming speeches, editorials, and televised survivor retrospectives about this history, important to tell for its warning that national vigilance … [Read more...] about On 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, Many Will Cut the Most Relevant Truth From National Memory: Islamist Ideology Still Motivates Mass Murder
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
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
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