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 looking during the Christmas 2023 holidays, Mexico launched an aggressive military campaign to “internally deport” immigrants from northern Mexico to southern Mexico. Here’s what it looks like inside of the biggest of the immigrant “caged” cities Mexico has trapped border-crossers until at least U.S. Election Day, Tapachula, a place where no U.S. reporter has dared venture. Stay tuned here for Bensman’s reports as they become available. Explore a collection of Bensman’s video Tweets
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A 75,000-square feet mega-mall, built to enable industrial-scale illegal immigration to the U.S. southern border, is almost online here in this key entry city just across from Guatemala. But its scheduled December opening projects a statement that not many Americans may ever readily hear — that powerful global agencies that will run the mass migration operation inside, the United Nations key among them, are very much bullish on a long-term future of continued heavy U.S.-bound illegal immigrant traffic through Mexico.
The Federalist: Mexico Is Holding Back A Massive Wave Of Illegal Immigrants That Will Break After The Election
Here’s what I learned walking among and interviewing a caravan of 1,000 about Mexico’s plans after Nov. 5.
Video Report: Caravans to Nowhere?
Why are thousands of migrants bottled up in this area near the Guatemala-Mexico border, and why are caravans forming but only moving within Chiapas? On-the-ground reporting by Todd Bensman, the Center’s national security fellow, highlights the impact of the Biden-Harris administration’s December 2023 deal with Mexico and the potential consequences leading up to and following the U.S. election.
Daily Mail Print and Video Report from Tapachula
It seems likely that after November 5 – Mexico’s newly-elected president will consider her country’s part in ‘Operation Carousel’ to be complete and lift any remaining immigration controls. That would mean hundreds of thousands of migrants, who have been waiting out the U.S. election in Mexico, may be permitted to – once again – try their luck at crossing illegally into the U.S. As far as they’re concerned, a Kamala Harris presidency would mean that America’s borders will be thrown open.
NY Post: Hundreds of thousands of migrants are being held in southern Mexico until US Election Day — and are eager to rush border
This town near the border of Guatemala holds a migrant time bomb ready to go off just after the US presidential election. The fuse was lit in December 2023, when the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration sent senior lieutenants to Mexico to work out the details of what remains a highly mysterious grand diplomatic bargain.
Video Report: River Rampage at the Guatemala-Mexico Frontier
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Recent Center for Immigration Studies field work reveals a growing crisis in the Mexican southern state of Chiapas. Why are thousands of migrants bottled up in this area near the Guatemala-Mexico border, and why are caravans forming but only moving within Chiapas? On-the-ground reporting by Todd Bensman, the Center’s national security fellow, highlights the impact of the Biden-Harris administration’s December 2023 deal with Mexico and the potential consequences leading up to and following the U.S. election.
On Fox News’ Hannity Show: Migrants Massed in Southern Mexico about to be Unleashed?
A Biden-arranged Mexican immigration blockade almost a year old may well be relaxed after the November 5 US election. Then what?
Todd Bensman Reporting Live From Tapachula, Mexico on the War Room
Live from Tapachula’s packed-crowded central downtown plaza discussing why it’s so packed and crowded: a US diplomatic deal vastly undercovered by American media
Mexican City Overrun by Entrapped Illegal Immigrants, Blaze TV
One-third of the population of Tapachula, Mexico, is now made up of migrants. Todd Bensman, a senior fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, says the Biden-Harris administration negotiated it as a holding zone with the Mexican government, effectively making it a holding cell. But Bensman says that if Kamala Harris wins the election, the migrants will be free to travel to the United States after November. One caravan is even attempting to breach the U.S. border soon, in case Trump wins the election.
Bensman with a Caravan, the War Room’s Monica Crowley
Behind me is a caravan of about a thousand people that have been on the road now for about a day and half. Instead of road blocks, the National Guard of Mexico is actually escorting them. Police officers here at this checkpoint, right here, are telling me their orders are to just leave them alone, let them go. Which is something kind of new.
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