By Todd Bensman as originally published February 22, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — In the first month of 2022, U.S. Border Patrol agents laid hands on more than two full Super Bowl stadiums worth of foreign nationals who crossed the southern border illegally, according to U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions statistics just released reflecting what happened … [Read more...] about Expanding Air Deportations Coincide with Falling Border Apprehensions
Securing America's Borders
Report: Biden’s ICE Headquarters Ordered Release of Border-Crossing Terrorist Suspect from Venezuela Despite FBI Recommendation
A Lebanon-born Venezuelan on the FBI’s Terrorism Watch List and “Highly Derogatory” Information Free in Michigan By Todd Bensman as originally published January 31, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies By Todd Bensman When President Joe Biden’s government ended interior deportations of illegally present foreign nationals in America last year, one group type left on a very short … [Read more...] about Report: Biden’s ICE Headquarters Ordered Release of Border-Crossing Terrorist Suspect from Venezuela Despite FBI Recommendation
Parsing Immigration Podcast:
The UN’s Role in Aiding and Abetting Illegal Immigration The material support happens all along the migrant trail Summary Nonprofit migrant advocacy organizations near Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala are offering an unusual and controversial psychological therapy to enable migrants to continue on the trail north to the U.S. border. Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national … [Read more...] about Parsing Immigration Podcast:
Biden Administration Secretively Renews Daily Air-Repatriation Flights to Haiti
By Todd Bensman as published January 28, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies TAPACHULA, Mexico – Beyond public light, President Joe Biden’s government has ramped up daily ICE-Air deportation flights of Haitian border crossers to the capital of Port-au-Prince, a kind of operation that brought intense criticism from the Democratic Party’s progressive liberal wing when he briefly used it to … [Read more...] about Biden Administration Secretively Renews Daily Air-Repatriation Flights to Haiti
UN Funds Harvesting ‘Repressed Memories’ of U.S.-Bound Migrants in Mexico
Those rejected for Mexican asylum get new stories to help with their appeals, allowing them to continue north to the U.S. By Todd Bensman as originally published January 24, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies See also: In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants and United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal … [Read more...] about UN Funds Harvesting ‘Repressed Memories’ of U.S.-Bound Migrants in Mexico
Mexico’s Duplicitous ‘Ant Operation’ Moved Tens of Thousands to the U.S. Border Sight Unseen — and Will Again Through 2022
By Todd Bensman as originally published January 17, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies TAPACHULA, Mexico — Between August and December 2021, Mexico mired between 30,000 and 50,000 U.S.-bound immigrants behind a bureaucratic dam in this southernmost city near the Guatemala border, requiring permission slips for onward movement that purposefully took months to get. This slow-roll-them … [Read more...] about Mexico’s Duplicitous ‘Ant Operation’ Moved Tens of Thousands to the U.S. Border Sight Unseen — and Will Again Through 2022
In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants
By Todd Bensman as originally published January 20, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies See also: United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal Immigration TAPACHULA, Mexico — The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR), which receives billions in U.S. taxpayer money, is handing out cash debit cards and other funds for lodging and prescription medicines to U.S.-bound … [Read more...] about In Mexico’s Deep South, the United Nations Explains Handing Cash to U.S.-Bound Migrants
A Reminder that Afghans Are Using the Border End-Run Option
By Todd Bensman as originally published January 4, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies U.S. Border Patrol agents near Calexico, Calif., recently detained an Afghan migrant who crossed from Mexico, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection activity log document obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies. “Ahmad Nasiri”, 29, was detained just before Christmas on an … [Read more...] about A Reminder that Afghans Are Using the Border End-Run Option
Mexico Freed a Suspected Yemeni Terrorist Migrant – and Left Americans to Find Him
Suggests coordination breakdown between U.S. homeland security and Mexican intelligence amid overwhelming mass-migration crisis By Todd Bensman as originally published December 28, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – On November 20, the government of Mexico released a Yemeni migrant who was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list – on condition that he “report weekly” to … [Read more...] about Mexico Freed a Suspected Yemeni Terrorist Migrant – and Left Americans to Find Him
United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal Immigration
Monthly cash for food, lodging, and 'movement' assistance amounts to material support for illegal immigration. It influences decisions to cross By Todd Bensman as published December 16, 2021 by The Federalist AUSTIN, Texas – During a recent trip to a Reynosa, Mexico migrant camp, I took photos of a United Nations-supported International Organization for Migration (IOM) operation … [Read more...] about United Nations Agency Uses U.S. Tax Dollars to Fund Illegal Immigration