RIP: January 2021-January 2025 By Todd Bensman as published March 3, 2025 by the Center for Immigration Studies We know enough now to justify a declaration about the greatest mass migration border crisis ever to have stricken the United States and probably any other country in the world: It is now, finally, at its end. A fitting tombstone might read RIP, Mass Migration Crisis: January 2021 to January 2024. I declare its end not as a … [Read More...] about Calling It: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over
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Securing America’s Borders
How Trump’s Suddenly Secure Border Forever Debunks Dem Immigration Theories
Neither the border nor the “immigration system” were ever “broken. By Todd Bensman as published March 5, 2025 by The Daily Wire AUSTIN, Texas – Following Donald Trump’s inauguration, it took his new administration all of an hour to bring the greatest mass migration border crisis in American history to a shuddering halt, with … [Read more...] about How Trump’s Suddenly Secure Border Forever Debunks Dem Immigration Theories
Terrorism and Homeland Security
Enhancing National Security: CIS Vetting Failure Database
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 194 Summary This week’s episode of Parsing Immigration Policy reminds listeners of the threats that made President Trump's recent Executive Order, "Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats," necessary. The Center for … [Read more...] about Enhancing National Security: CIS Vetting Failure Database
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
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 one of the most interesting and consequential of the orders … [Read more...] about Decoding Trump’s Border Counterterrorism Order, a 3-Part Analysis of the Most Interesting of Trump’s Executive Orders
‘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