Securing America's Borders

The first Trump Effect showed that real action must follow campaign rhetoric By Todd Bensman as published November 14, 2024 by The Daily Wire Shortly after Donald Trump’s upset election victory in 2016, official State of Texas business brought me to two ICE immigration detention centers in South Texas. I ran an intelligence group for the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Intelligence and … [Read more...] about Daily Wire: The ‘Trump Effect’ 2.0: Illegal Border Crossings Set To Plummet, On One Condition

The profound hypocrisy of the outrage machine now ginning up against Trump’s coming deportation crackdown By Todd Bensman as published November 11, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Democratic Party oppositionists, immigrant advocates, and their U.S. media allies are mobilized and dug in with sharpened staves for all-out political war against one of President-elect Donald … [Read more...] about Biden-Harris DHS Already Does a Smaller Version of Trump’s ‘Cruel’ Mass Deportation of Immigrant Families – with No Media Freakout

By Todd Bensman as published November 7, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — In a New York Post column today, I revised my earlier dark warnings that Mexico would likely unleash hundreds of thousands of migrants yearning to cross the U.S. Southwest border before Donald Trump could win a second term, take office, and dam the whole border up. I wrote in the … [Read more...] about To President-Elect Trump: Beware of Duplicitous Mexican ‘Ant Operations’ to Hide a Mad Border Rush

By Todd Bensman as published November 6, 2024 by The New York Post Even before the US polls opened Tuesday, a vanguard of immigrants at least 5,000 strong set out on a long march from deep southern Mexico to the US southern border. The purpose: to test whether new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will use the military to stop them now that the American election is over. No … [Read more...] about NY Post: Even before taking office, Trump threatens Mexico with massive tariffs — stop the caravans now

Here’s what I learned walking among and interviewing a caravan of 1,000 about Mexico’s plans after Nov. 5. By Todd Bensman as published October 31, 2024 by The Federalist TAPACHULA, Mexico – A tip led me to 40 kilometers north of this down-at-heel border city, by rental car, until I spotted the unmistakable sight: a 1,000-strong caravan of migrants marching by foot along Mexico Highway … [Read more...] about The Federalist: Mexico Is Holding Back A Massive Wave Of Illegal Immigrants That Will Break After The Election

The UNHCR received $1.9 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023. By Todd Bensman as published October 30, 2024 by The Daily Wire TAPACHULA, Mexico — 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 … [Read more...] about The Daily Wire: UN Non-Profits Pave The Way For Permanent Mass Migration

By Todd Bensman as published October 24 by the Center for Immigration Studies Washington, D.C. (October 24, 2023) – 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? … [Read more...] about VIDEO: Caravans to Nowhere?

By Todd Bensman as published October 22, 2024 by The Daily Mail "I love Kamala Harris,' a young Venezuelan man declared as he rested on the side of a highway in southern Mexico last week. His belongings were heaped at his feet. Hundreds of fellow migrants stretched out along the roadway in both directions. They're headed for the U.S. and nearly all of them have an opinion about … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: Bensman Reports from Southern Mexico in Print and Video

By Todd Bensman as published October 23, 2024 by The New York Post TAPACHULA, Mexico — 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 … [Read more...] about NY Post: Hundreds of thousands of migrants are being held in southern Mexico until US Election Day — and are eager to rush border

Todd Bensman, the Center’s Senior National Security Fellow, is on the ground tracking U.S. -bound migrants in southern Mexico at the Guatemalan border. His footage shows rafts carrying human and commercial cargo from Guatemala to Mexico across the Rio Suchiate, with the Guatemalan side now also controlled by organized crime.  Bensman found in interviews with the raft pilots that … [Read more...] about VIDEO REPORT: River Rampage at the Guatemala-Mexico Frontier