Terrorism & Homeland Security

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

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

Biden/Harris DOJ argued that names of the suspects were protected on grounds of ‘personal privacy’ By Todd Bensman as published July 31, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies The Biden administration has refused answer reporters’ questions, rule out terrorism, or even reveal the names of two Jordanians in the country illegally, one of whom had illegally crossed the U.S. Southwest … [Read more...] about Jordanians in Quantico Truck-Ramming Finally Identified

A ‘clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy’ and of ‘minimal public interest’ By Todd Bensman as published June 26, 2024 by the Center for Immigration Studies The U.S. government is withholding the names of two illegal alien Jordanian nationals, one of whom illegally crossed the Southwest Border, who on May 3 tried to ram a box truck into the Quantico Marine Corps base, citing … [Read more...] about Biden Administration Shields Identity of Jordanians in Foiled Quantico Attack

As published June 26 by The American Mind U.S. authorities have virtually sealed any illuminating information about the recent FBI counterterrorism arrest of eight ISIS-tied Tajikistani nationals who crossed the southwest border a year ago. They were quickly freed amid the ongoing mass migration flood and claimed asylum. Federal law enforcement acted after a wiretap investigation intercepted … [Read more...] about Analysis: How to Think About the FBI’s Arrest of Eight Tajik Border Crossers for Suspected Terrorism