See Todd Bensman's: Front Line Field Reports, 2021-2025, from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History The Greatest Mass Migration Crisis in US History is Over I declare its end not as a government official empowered with any special authority to do so, but as someone who accurately foretold the coming crisis before it began in 2020 and 2021 and then, for the ensuing four years, covered this … [Read More...] about Collection: The Greatest Mass Migration Border Crisis in US History is Over; RIP January 2021-January 2025
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Securing America’s Borders
Then and Now at the Southern Border
What happened to one Texas segment when the White House changed hands By Todd Bensman as published April 3, 2025 by The American Mind (A modified version by the Center for Immigration Studies) JUAREZ, Mexico – On New Year’s Eve 2020, as President-elect Joe Biden was at home in Delaware celebrating his imminent move into the … [Read more...] about Then and Now at the Southern Border
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