By Todd Bensman as published January 23, 2024 in The American Mind magazine SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- While driving 100 kmh past a highway-side gas station on the outskirts of Sarajevo, I spied and accurately identified a human smuggling scene unfolding in the station parking lot: several Caucasian men, no doubt local smugglers, shepherded some 30 young Middle Eastern male immigrants and their … [Read more...] about Europe in Crisis: The Road from Damascus
Terrorism and Homeland Security
‘Attachment A’ is a roadmap to Hamas in the US — is the FBI paying attention?
By Todd Bensman as published November 3, 2023 by the New York Post AUSTIN, Texas — Is the US-designated terrorist group Hamas active in the United States? Of course it is, as it has been since the early 1990s, albeit limiting its activities mainly to influencing the media and therefore government policy toward Israel, and potentially still illegally fundraising in ways the FBI has … [Read more...] about ‘Attachment A’ is a roadmap to Hamas in the US — is the FBI paying attention?
Senator Demands Biden Administration Answer Bensman Reports on ‘Abject Failure To Protect U.S. National Security Interests’
By Todd Bensman as published October 30 by the New York Post See series of stories that led to this report Following my revelations that President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security has intentionally approved thousands of questionably vetted terror-country immigrants over the southern border, influential Sen. Chuck Grassley has fired off a scathing oversight letter demanding … [Read more...] about Senator Demands Biden Administration Answer Bensman Reports on ‘Abject Failure To Protect U.S. National Security Interests’
Thousands of ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Posing Potential National Security Risks Entering via CBP One App: Part III
By Todd Bensman as published October 24, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies See: Part I New Records Show Biden DHS Okayed Hundreds of Thousands of Foreign Nationals to Fly Into the United States by Air Part IINew Records Unveil Surprising Scope of Secretive ‘CBP One’ Entry Scheme” AND: Senator Demands Biden Administration Answer Bensman Reports on ‘Abject Failure To Protect U.S. … [Read more...] about Thousands of ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Posing Potential National Security Risks Entering via CBP One App: Part III
New Records Unveil Surprising Scope of Secretive ‘CBP One’ Entry Scheme: Part II
Began far earlier and let in many more nationalities in far greater numbers than publicly disclosed Also see: Part II: New Records Show Biden DHS Okayed Hundreds of Thousands of Entries by Air Part III: Thousands of ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Posing Potential National Security Risks Entering via CBP One App” Senator Demands Biden Administration Answer Bensman Reports on ‘Abject Failure … [Read more...] about New Records Unveil Surprising Scope of Secretive ‘CBP One’ Entry Scheme: Part II
Insights from Giving — and Watching — Congressional Testimony about terrorist border infiltration threat
By Todd Bensman as published September 18, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies Also, hear selected testimony excerpts on the Parsing Immigration Policy podcast here WASHINGTON, D.C. — As in most important matters of national concern these days, our Congress is hopelessly divided by an ideological Grand Canyon over the event that brought us all together 22 years ago: the … [Read more...] about Insights from Giving — and Watching — Congressional Testimony about terrorist border infiltration threat
Bensman Testifies Before Congress: “Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border
Todd Bensman testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement at a hearing on Thursday, September 14, 2023. The hearing, "Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border," examined the national security implications of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) open-borders agenda, including how the Biden Administration's policies have led to … [Read more...] about Bensman Testifies Before Congress: “Terrorist Entry Through the Southwest Border
What to Make of CNN’s Exclusive About an ISIS Smuggler Who Moved Uzbeks Over the Border
Hint: More evidence that border counterterrorism programs have all but collapsed, leaving America vulnerable By Todd Bensman as published August 29, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — Feverish FBI manhunts for potential terrorists who crossed the southern border and got lost in the mix are nothing new in America, especially amid the most voluminous mass migration … [Read more...] about What to Make of CNN’s Exclusive About an ISIS Smuggler Who Moved Uzbeks Over the Border
Doctor’s jihadist plot: How well do we vet visa applicants?
By Todd Bensman as published August 28, 2023 by The New York Post A Pakistani doctor who got an H-1B temporary work visa to join the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is going to federal prison for incubating a plot to kill fellow Hippocratic oath takers while “behind enemy lines,” as he wrote in an encrypted jihadist social-media channel. He’d grown sick of forever smiling at … [Read more...] about Doctor’s jihadist plot: How well do we vet visa applicants?
U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security: Joint subcommittee hearing on Human Cost of Biden and Mayorkas’ Border Crisis
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 2:00 PM ET, the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement, led by Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA), and the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, led by Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX), held a joint hearing to examine the tragic human cost of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and President Biden’s historic … [Read more...] about U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security: Joint subcommittee hearing on Human Cost of Biden and Mayorkas’ Border Crisis