Securing U.S. Borders

Cut One: Mexico's 2006-2009 Military War Against the Cartels Ended Too Soon Bensman: "My first coverage of the border was with the Calderon government, from 2006 to 2009, when that Mexican government went fully kinetic against the cartels, using their marines, their military, attack with guns, bombs, helicopters, the whole thing. And that led to a civil drug war that was incredibly painful for … [Read more...] about Bensman at the Texas Policy Summit 2023: Mexico- Friend or Foe Panel

The migrant crisis began when the Biden administration returned to a system of powerful incentives that proved irresistible. By Todd Bensman as published March 4, 2023 in The National Review Title 42 is a provision of U.S. immigration law that allows federal health authorities to deny asylum to refugees who might increase the spread of infectious diseases. The Biden administration … [Read more...] about The National Review Publishes OVERRUN Excerpt

This excerpt is taken with permission from the new book by Town Hall contributor Todd Bensman entitled Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, released February 21. It is taken from Chapter Seven, Mexico Triggers Noah’s Flood By Todd Bensman as published February 28, 2023 by Townhall Media Policies that created special rights for people who … [Read more...] about Fake Families – a Townhall excerpt from OVERRUN

Watch the hour-long February 22, 2023 segment Excerpt: WHY THE IMMIGRANTS SAY THEY COME Jennie Taer: Tell me about some of the conversations you’ve had with some of these migrants as they’ve been making their journey. You’ve been down in Central America. You’ve been south of the border. And then the conversations you’ve had with them after they’ve crossed. Bensman: Right. You know … [Read more...] about C-Span’s Book TV, “After Words with Todd Bensman” about new book OVERRUN

Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Chapter 4 of “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in American History,” by Todd Bensman. When the American people elected Donald Trump on November 8, 2016, my job suddenly changed. Overnight, I was required to fear, prepare for, and prevent the assassination of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and a coming bloodbath in downtown … [Read more...] about Overrun Excerpted in Washington Times: Biden Caved to Advocates and Deluge Ensued

Excerpted with permission from “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,” by Todd Bensman, out this month from Bombardier Books. Immediately after Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, the southern border exploded. Families started crossing en masse, and the Border Patrol released them to non-profits, which bused them to cities around the country. As … [Read more...] about Exclusive New York Post Excerpt from Overrun book: How Mexico Outfoxed Joe Biden on Illegal Immigration, Knowing He’d Never Fight Back

By Todd Bensman as published February 9, 2023 by Town Hall Media AUSTIN, Texas — Vice President Kamala Harris spiked the football this week as though she had scored big time in her two-year effort to address the “root causes” of illegal immigration from Central America. Some $950 million in new pledges by private companies, added to the $3.2 billion pledged since May 2021, are already creating … [Read more...] about In Town Hall: A Failed, Unreported History Precedes Harris’ ‘Root Causes’ Strategy to Shutter Illegal Immigration

Spanish-language media: U.S. online admission-work-permit reservation app and Mexican cities buckling under global surge, lengthening queues By Todd Bensman as originally published February 7, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — Whatever inducements President Biden promised his Mexican counterpart in exchange for supporting a major shift in U.S. border … [Read more...] about Mexico in Chaos after First Month of Biden’s ‘CBP One’ Work Permit Giveaway Program

By Todd Bensman (A modified version of this story was published by The New York Post) AUSTIN, Texas — A Fox News report that Texas state troopers caught an Iranian in the trunk of a smuggler’s car who was on the FBI’s terrorism watch list briefly diverted America’s attention to the border crisis, until the Department of Homeland Security retorted that the illegal immigrant … [Read more...] about Why Iranians in Smuggler Car Trunks at the Border is Never a Good Thing

By Todd Bensman as published January 26, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas – For its new border “enforcement” plan – the one that pre-legalizes intending border-crossers while south of the border and then flies or escorts them across official ports of entry, President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security assures that all must first pass “rigorous security … [Read more...] about The Empty Promise of ‘Rigorous Security Vetting’ in New Migrant Border-Crossing Program