Securing America's Borders

By Todd Bensman on January 26, 2023 AUSTIN, Texas — U.S. Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) and a group of House Republicans have reintroduced a bill that would require the United States to defund United Nations agencies — and recoup past contributions — on grounds that the agencies are financing a historic mass migration event now beginning its third year. Gooden and a dozen co-sponsors … [Read more...] about Defund the UN Movement Rears Up Again in the Republican-Controlled House

By Todd Bensman as published January 24, 2023 in Newsweek In its latest monthly announcement of record illegal immigrant apprehensions at the southern border, the Biden administration took credit for certain steep declines which it attributed to "our new border enforcement measures." The number of Venezuelans unlawfully crossing was down 82 percent from its peak in September, for … [Read more...] about In Newsweek: Biden’s Immigration Magic Trick | Opinion:

The sudden lurch forward and a long mournful moan of iron on iron offered the only shocking alert to dozens of Hondurans, Venezuelans, and Guatemalans along the nearly half-mile long freight train that the final leg of their journey to the Texas border had finally begun. There's no conductor here. So those caught by surprise down on the tracks, chit chatting and charging cell phones by … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: TODD BENSMAN’s graphic dispatch from the Mexican ‘Beast’ trains ferrying thousands to America

A tale of open government corruption, impressive criminal organization, and irresistible profit from American policy By Todd Bensman as published by the Center for Immigration Studies EL MORAL, Mexico – Just across the Rio Grande from this tiny farming village is where Fox News drones shot the video footage that provided America with perhaps the most iconic vision of the southern border’s … [Read more...] about Behind Those Iconic Fox News Drone Videos of Mass Migration: Now, the Disturbing Mexico Side of the Story

UN-organized 'cash working groups' are key to new White House border-management plan that pre-legalizes immigrants before they can jump the border By Todd Bensman as published January 9, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies MONTERREY, Mexico – The director of this country’s largest immigrant shelter worked himself into a peak of outrage recalling the largesse of a United Nations … [Read more...] about United Nations to Hand out Hundreds of Millions in Cash to U.S.-Bound Immigrants in 2023

By TODD BENSMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM as published January 10, 2023 Watch closely America, President Joe Biden is about to perform his greatest border crisis cover-up yet. It's a scheme to hide a massive new acceleration of human inflows into the United States behind trickery, misdirection, and probable illegality - and then laughlingly call it progress. Witness … [Read more...] about In The Daily Mail: The damning truth about Biden’s new illegal migrant ‘crackdown’ – he’s just going to make it even easier for millions to come in

Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 86 By Mark Krikorian and Todd Bensman on January 5, 2023 View Podcast Archive Krikorian: "What to me is most remarkable is no one else has been reporting on this. I mean, you’ve been doing some really great reporting on this but why hasn’t the LA Times or Reuters or AP or the New York Times been writing about this. It’s really … [Read more...] about Parsing Immigration Podcast: Bensman Field Work Breaks Two Stories South of the Border

By Todd Bensman as published December 22, 2022 by The Daily Mail For decades, illegal immigration amounted to a side hustle for Mexico's ultra-violent cartel mafias that control all the southern border smuggling lanes into America. But no more. President Joe Biden's election and America's subsequent mass migration crisis has bestowed such fabulous riches upon these … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: Biden’s border crisis is fueling growing cartel armies – now armed to the teeth and rivaling Mexico’s military

Never mind last-minute legal delays, untold thousands are already at the international starting line, with many more on the way By Todd Bensman as published December 20, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – In a “social phenomenon never seen before in the history of the region”, according to one media account, indigenous Miskitos, Tawhkas, Perch, and Garifunas peoples … [Read more...] about Latin American Media: Migrants Marching North for Title 42’s Funeral