In a series of written and video reports from both sides from the US-Mexico border during 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Todd Bensman explores the causes, consequences, and experience of the mass-migration crisis he predicted in a November 2020 column titled "Will We See a 'Biden Effect' at the Border?" The crisis began several months before the national presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet that Joe Biden would win and open the border … [Read More...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
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Securing America’s Borders
Daily Wire: The ‘Trump Effect’ 2.0: Illegal Border Crossings Set To Plummet, On One Condition
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 … [Read more...] about Daily Wire: The ‘Trump Effect’ 2.0: Illegal Border Crossings Set To Plummet, On One Condition
Terrorism and Homeland Security
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 … [Read more...] about NY Post: Trump Plan to Bring Back Misnamed ‘Muslim Travel Ban’ a Necessary Re-Start
DISPATCHES FROM A BORDER IN HISTORIC CRISIS
Bensman in Mexico’s Deep South
In this video from home, Bensman explains why he traveled to deep southern Mexico in October 2024. He is the first American writer to take stock of a Biden-Harris administration-engineered "Gaza Strip' created to hem up aspiring U.S. border crossers whose crossings en mass would have wrecked the Democrat Party's re-election November 5. As a result of a diplomatic deal struck when no one was … [Read more...] about Bensman in Mexico’s Deep South
Bensman at The Darien Gap – Colombia/Panama
CIS analyst Todd Bensman completed field research August 6-18, 2024 about the Darien Gap immigration passageway through which more than 1.5 million foreign nationals have reached the U.S. southern border over the past three-plus years. At the link above, you can find X Tweets Bensman posted of video and photos from the ground. Here you can also find Bensman's published reports. Bensman's purpose … [Read more...] about Bensman at The Darien Gap – Colombia/Panama