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 2020 presidential election, when aspiring immigrants bet that Joe Biden would win and open the border to … [Read More...] about Front Line Field Reports from the Greatest Mass Migration Event in American History
Main Content
Securing America’s Borders
The Daily Mail: bizarre rumor driving Train-surfing migrants to rush US border
By Todd Bensman as published December 16, 2024 by The Daily Mail Online HUEHUETOCA, Mexico – There were no signs of human life, just railroad tracks and a rough dirt road, six miles west of a small Mexican mountain town. But this was definitely the place described to me. On a recent trip to Mexico City's … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: bizarre rumor driving Train-surfing migrants to rush US border
Terrorism and Homeland Security
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 … [Read more...] about Afghan Evacuee Added to Vetting Failures Database
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