Securing U.S. Borders

The UNHCR received $1.9 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds in 2024 and $2.1 billion in 2023. By Todd Bensman as published October 30, 2024 by The Daily Wire TAPACHULA, Mexico — A 75,000-square feet mega-mall, built to enable industrial-scale illegal immigration to the U.S. southern border, is almost online here in this key entry city just across from Guatemala. But its scheduled December … [Read more...] about The Daily Wire: UN Non-Profits Pave The Way For Permanent Mass Migration

By Todd Bensman as published October 24 by the Center for Immigration Studies Washington, D.C. (October 24, 2023) – Recent Center for Immigration Studies field work reveals a growing crisis in the Mexican southern state of Chiapas. Why are thousands of migrants bottled up in this area near the Guatemala-Mexico border, and why are caravans forming but only moving within Chiapas? … [Read more...] about VIDEO: Caravans to Nowhere?

By Todd Bensman as published October 22, 2024 by The Daily Mail "I love Kamala Harris,' a young Venezuelan man declared as he rested on the side of a highway in southern Mexico last week. His belongings were heaped at his feet. Hundreds of fellow migrants stretched out along the roadway in both directions. They're headed for the U.S. and nearly all of them have an opinion about … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: Bensman Reports from Southern Mexico in Print and Video

By Todd Bensman as published October 23, 2024 by The New York Post TAPACHULA, Mexico — This town near the border of Guatemala holds a migrant time bomb ready to go off just after the US presidential election. The fuse was lit in December 2023, when the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration sent senior lieutenants to Mexico to work out the details of what remains a highly … [Read more...] about NY Post: Hundreds of thousands of migrants are being held in southern Mexico until US Election Day — and are eager to rush border

Todd Bensman, the Center’s Senior National Security Fellow, is on the ground tracking U.S. -bound migrants in southern Mexico at the Guatemalan border. His footage shows rafts carrying human and commercial cargo from Guatemala to Mexico across the Rio Suchiate, with the Guatemalan side now also controlled by organized crime.  Bensman found in interviews with the raft pilots that … [Read more...] about VIDEO REPORT: River Rampage at the Guatemala-Mexico Frontier

By Todd Bensman as published October 2, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies Go here to see all of Bensman's reporting from the Darien Gap A new Center for Immigration Studies video report uncovers one of the world’s most organized human smuggling operations. It operates out of a northwest Colombia village named Capurgana and is controlled by a paramilitary organization called the … [Read more...] about VIDEO Report from Colombia: A Cartel, UN, and NGOs Fuel U.S. Border Crisis

They’re flying them in from Europe, the Caribbean, and even Australia. By Todd Bensman as published September 28, 2024 by The Federalist or a short time, the Biden-Harris administration paused its legally dubious “humanitarian parole” program flying foreigners to the U.S., after discovering that thousands of the required U.S.-based financial “sponsors” were fraudsters or … [Read more...] about The Federalist: Biden And Harris Let Migrants Fly From The Bougiest Places On Earth Under Guise Of ‘Humanitarianism’

By Todd Bensman as published September 13, 2024 by The American Mind The sensational media dispute over Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and the nitpicking over individual anecdotes from that town is obscuring a far more important reality. Whatever else we know, it is a documented fact that the Biden-Harris Administration is complicit in a multinational effort, aided by major NGOs and … [Read more...] about Dispatch from Colombia: South American ally permits mass migration; Biden/Harris look away

An early Center for Immigration Studies assessment from the field By Todd Bensman as published September 9, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies KEY FINDINGS 1. Panama was unable to ramp up substantial air or ground expulsions because the United States did not follow through with seemingly promised financial support Panama thought necessary for repatriation … [Read more...] about Final Report Answering: Has Panama Closed the Notorious ‘Darien Gap’ Mass Migration Route to the U.S. Border as Promised?