Terrorism & Homeland Security

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 from the August 2021 fall of Kabul who stands charged with multiple … [Read more...] about Afghan Evacuee Added to Vetting Failures Database

Americans deserve a full-scale investigation into what happened in Chicago and how to prevent the next open-borders-enabled attack on U.S. soil. By Todd Bensman as published December 2, 2024 by The Federalist Surprisingly little news coverage followed America’s first terror attack by an illegal border-crossing immigrant on U.S. soil. On Saturday, 22-year-old Mauritanian Sidi Mohamed … [Read more...] about The Federalist: Without A Reckoning, The First U.S. Terror Attack Caused By Open Borders Won’t Be The Last

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 butcher knife, injuring 11. Campus police shot the young … [Read more...] about NY Post: Trump Plan to Bring Back Misnamed ‘Muslim Travel Ban’ a Necessary Re-Start

Last month, an identifiably Jewish Chicago man was shot while walking to synagogue on the Sabbath. While attacks against American Jews have generally been prosecuted as “assaults” or “hate crimes,” this time the assailant was charged with “terrorism.” A native of Mauritania, he had been “encountered by US Border Patrol at the California border in 2023,” according to ICE, but then entered the … [Read more...] about ​Jewish Policy Center webinar: Who is Coming Across our Borders?

Questions that must be asked about the Mauritanian illegal border-crosser charged in the shooting of Chicago Jewish man By Todd Benman as published October 31, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies In a shooting that bears the hallmarks of a terror attack, 22-year-old Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi of Mauritania stands charged with opening fire on an identifiably orthodox Jewish man … [Read more...] about Terror Attack in Chicago? Mauritanian Charged for Shooting Jewish Man and Cops Illegally Crossed US-Mexico Border

By Todd Bensman as published October 14, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies To little fanfare, the US Department of Homeland Security on October 2 published the Homeland Threat Assessment 2025, a forward-looking warning to the American people of potential death, destruction, and other harms that may befall us in the coming new year, risk rising or falling on who wins the US … [Read more...] about What the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Homeland Threat Assessment for 2025 Says About the Border

Canadian mass immigration program is now a U.S. national security threat requiring a muscular diplomatic offensive By Todd Bensman as published October 1, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies. A modified version of this story was published by The New York Post By now, many Americans are aware of the elevated national security risk of terrorist infiltrations over the U.S. … [Read more...] about Meanwhile at the Northern Border, a Border-Crossing Jihadist Attack in NYC Thwarted

By Todd Bensman ​as published October 1, 2024​ by The New York Post. A longer version of this story appeared at the Center for Immigration Studies Americans are well aware of the security disaster of the Biden-Harris open southern border — including 400 illegal crossers who were flagged on the FBI terrorism watch list. But an alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York now demands … [Read more...] about In the NY Post: Liberal Canada’s lax immigration policies behind a plot to kill Jews in NYC, ‘largest attack since 9/11’

By Todd Bensman as published summer 2024 by the Jewish Policy Center In the early morning hours of May 3, a Jordanian immigrant who illegally crossed the US-Mexico border a month earlier joined with another illegally present Jordanian. Together they drove a large box truck to the entry gates of Quantico Marine Corps Base in northern Virginia. The driver announced they were Amazon … [Read more...] about Jewish Policy Center’s inFOCUS Quarterly, Summer 2024: Chronic Counterterrorism Lapses at the Border

As published August 28, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies PANAMA CITY, Panama — In April 2022, the American public finally heard the sound of national security alarms about the U.S. southern border, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection began publishing, on a monthly basis, the numbers of FBI watch-listed terrorists caught illegally crossing (a record-breaking 378 from … [Read more...] about Exclusive: Panama Border Security Chief Says Many U.S.-Bound Terror Suspects Caught in Darien Gap Region