Arrested for plot to bomb Israeli consulate in N.Y., adjudicators missed evidence of online extremism By Todd Bensman as published January 10, 2025 by the Center for Immigration Studies An 18-year-old Egyptian student at Virginia’s George Mason University who now stands charged with multiple terrorism offenses related to a mass casualty plot on Israel’s consulate in New York is the latest … [Read more...] about Egyptian Student Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database
Terrorism and Homeland Security
‘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
Afghan Evacuee Added to Vetting Failures Database
By Todd Bensman as published December 10, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies See also: Accidentally Released Border-Crossing Terror Suspect Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database and: Convicted Border-Crossing Terrorist Added to the CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database An Afghan evacuee from the August 2021 fall of Kabul who stands charged with multiple … [Read more...] about Afghan Evacuee Added to Vetting Failures Database
The Federalist: Without A Reckoning, The First U.S. Terror Attack Caused By Open Borders Won’t Be The Last
Americans deserve a full-scale investigation into what happened in Chicago and how to prevent the next open-borders-enabled attack on U.S. soil. By Todd Bensman as published December 2, 2024 by The Federalist Surprisingly little news coverage followed America’s first terror attack by an illegal border-crossing immigrant on U.S. soil. On Saturday, 22-year-old Mauritanian Sidi Mohamed … [Read more...] about The Federalist: Without A Reckoning, The First U.S. Terror Attack Caused By Open Borders Won’t Be The Last
NY Post: Trump Plan to Bring Back Misnamed ‘Muslim Travel Ban’ a Necessary Re-Start
By Todd Bensman as published November 14 by The New York Post Not long before President Donald Trump, in his first term, issued his so-called “travel ban” on 13 countries, Somalia-born Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a Honda Civic into a crowd of fellow Ohio State University students and got out slashing with a butcher knife, injuring 11. Campus police shot the young … [Read more...] about NY Post: Trump Plan to Bring Back Misnamed ‘Muslim Travel Ban’ a Necessary Re-Start
Jewish Policy Center webinar: Who is Coming Across our Borders?
Last month, an identifiably Jewish Chicago man was shot while walking to synagogue on the Sabbath. While attacks against American Jews have generally been prosecuted as “assaults” or “hate crimes,” this time the assailant was charged with “terrorism.” A native of Mauritania, he had been “encountered by US Border Patrol at the California border in 2023,” according to ICE, but then entered the … [Read more...] about Jewish Policy Center webinar: Who is Coming Across our Borders?
Terror Attack in Chicago? Mauritanian Charged for Shooting Jewish Man and Cops Illegally Crossed US-Mexico Border
Questions that must be asked about the Mauritanian illegal border-crosser charged in the shooting of Chicago Jewish man By Todd Benman as published October 31, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies In a shooting that bears the hallmarks of a terror attack, 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi of Mauritania stands charged with opening fire on an identifiably orthodox Jewish man … [Read more...] about Terror Attack in Chicago? Mauritanian Charged for Shooting Jewish Man and Cops Illegally Crossed US-Mexico Border
What the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Homeland Threat Assessment for 2025 Says About the Border
By Todd Bensman as published October 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies To little fanfare, the US Department of Homeland Security on October 2 published the Homeland Threat Assessment 2025, a forward-looking warning to the American people of potential death, destruction, and other harms that may befall us in the coming new year, risk rising or falling on who wins the US … [Read more...] about What the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Homeland Threat Assessment for 2025 Says About the Border
Meanwhile at the Northern Border, a Border-Crossing Jihadist Attack in NYC Thwarted
Canadian mass immigration program is now a U.S. national security threat requiring a muscular diplomatic offensive By Todd Bensman as published October 1, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies. A modified version of this story was published by The New York Post By now, many Americans are aware of the elevated national security risk of terrorist infiltrations over the U.S. … [Read more...] about Meanwhile at the Northern Border, a Border-Crossing Jihadist Attack in NYC Thwarted
In the NY Post: Liberal Canada’s lax immigration policies behind a plot to kill Jews in NYC, ‘largest attack since 9/11’
By Todd Bensman as published October 1, 2024 by The New York Post. A longer version of this story appeared at the Center for Immigration Studies Americans are well aware of the security disaster of the Biden-Harris open southern border — including 400 illegal crossers who were flagged on the FBI terrorism watch list. But an alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York now demands … [Read more...] about In the NY Post: Liberal Canada’s lax immigration policies behind a plot to kill Jews in NYC, ‘largest attack since 9/11’