On Inauguration Day 2025, President Donald Trump began signing a rack of executive orders establishing the highest, more pressing policy priorities of his young second administration, immigration and border security topping the list with 10 initial orders. Most of the executive orders attracted much media attention and analysis. But one of the most interesting and consequential of the orders attracted little to no attention, the action-packed one … [Read More...] about Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order, a 3-Part Analysis of the Most Interesting of Trump’s Executive Orders
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Securing America’s Borders
NY Post: Finally, Trump Clamps Cash Firehose to Mass Migration Nonprofits
By Todd Bensman as published February 1, 2025 by The New York Post For four years, I’ve reported about how a large, organized constellation of United Nations agencies partnered with hundreds of private nonprofit groups to direct billions of mostly US-taxpayer dollars into supporting historic illegal southern border crossing … [Read more...] about NY Post: Finally, Trump Clamps Cash Firehose to Mass Migration Nonprofits
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order, a 3-Part Analysis of the Most Interesting of Trump’s Executive Orders
On Inauguration Day 2025, President Donald Trump began signing a rack of executive orders establishing the highest, more pressing policy priorities of his young second administration, immigration and border security topping the list with 10 initial orders. Most of the executive orders attracted much media attention and analysis. But … [Read more...] about Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order, a 3-Part Analysis of the Most Interesting of Trump’s Executive Orders
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing 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 Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack,” includes … [Read more...] about ‘First Blood’: A 3-Part Series on a Border-Crossing Terror Attack Against Chicago’s Jewish Community
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