Securing U.S. Borders

By Todd Bensman NEAR BIHAC, BOSNIA - Among the Syrians, Moroccans, and Algerians thronging the United Nations’ Camp Lipa in northwestern Bosnia, I met a young Afghan man on his way to England who typified one potential problem Europe faces amid powerfully resurgent mass illegal immigration. The man said in broken English that he’d not fled the Taliban, identified by the U.S. Treasury … [Read more...] about Are Borders Back in Europe? Claremont Institute’s The American Mind Magazine

Perhaps an unauthorized work-around to limits on asylum or work visas By Todd Bensman on November 3, 2023 AUSTIN, Texas — Of all the revelations from a recent Center for Immigration Studies Freedom of Information Act lawsuit none was more surprising than that the U.S. government allowed the entry of more than 57,000 Mexican nationals through the secretive CBP One smartphone app … [Read more...] about Why Is Biden Quietly Granting ‘Humanitarian Protection’ to Thousands of Mexicans?

Read the full Center for Immigration Studies story here too: Texas Seizes Cartel Island in the Rio Grande, or at The Daily Mail: … [Read more...] about Video Report: Texas Seizes Cartel Island in the Rio Grande in Risky First-of-a-Kind Operation

By force of arms, elite Texas Rangers occupy the largest cartel sanctuary island yet to deny its use for further marauding By Todd Bensman as published October 11, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies SEE VIDEO REPORT NEAR FRONTON, Texas – As the orange rays of early dawn lit a local corn farm Monday morning, the Texas Rangers commander briefed a heavily armed assembly of elite … [Read more...] about The Daily Mail: Texas Seizes Cartel Island in the Rio Grande

Biden’s DHS is either importing perfect angels over the southern border or breaching promise of security vetting By Todd Bensman as published September 26, 2023 by the Center for Immigration Studies WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all of 2023, top Biden administration officials have repeatedly assured Americans that aspiring illegal border crossers would undergo “rigorous security … [Read more...] about New Records Show Biden’s DHS Accepting 99.7 Percent of Recent Aliens Applying for Entry Using CBP One

See Part II New Records Unveil Surprising Scope of Secretive ‘CBP One’ Entry Scheme, Part III Thousands of ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Posing Potential National Security Risks Entering via CBP One App and Senator Demands Biden Administration Answer Bensman Reports on ‘Abject Failure To Protect U.S. National Security Interests’ By Todd Bensman as published September 21, 2023 by the Center for … [Read more...] about Part I: New Records Show Biden DHS Has Approved Hundreds of Thousands of Migrants for Secretive Foreign Flights Directly into U.S. Airports

Conservatives who seek to defend the country must analyze and draw on Todd Bensman’s hard-won and operational insights, now. “They come in from all over Central America, Haiti, Africa, Indonesia and from all over South America; they just keep coming and keep coming and keep coming.”José, a Mexican criminal cartel operative interviewed by author Todd Bensman Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed … [Read more...] about New Book Review in The American Conservative: America Overrun, America Transformed

by MARTHA ROSENBERG, as published August 20, 2023 by The American Spectator Rosenberg: Working as a reporter and now as a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, you have done a lot of “shoe leather” reporting at the U.S. southern border — covering the Mexican drug wars and, in the last years, immigration. Unlike so many immigration reporters who rely on second hand reports, you … [Read more...] about American Spectator Interview with Bensman

Audiobook recording makes Overrun more accessible to a general reading public short on time By Todd Bensman for ToddBensman.com Thanks to strong sales and persistent public interest, Post Hill Press/Bombardier Books today released the audio edition of my book OVERRUN, How Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history. It is available here at Barnes & Noble and at … [Read more...] about ‘Overrun’ Audio Book Now Available