Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD
@KimWexlerMAJD
According to Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, the Justice Department must demand transparency for how taxpayer dollars have been spent supporting illegal immigration, and should prepare for a multi-year investigation.
“It’s very difficult to track the way money moves through organizations,” Bensman told Fine Point with Chanel Rion on Wednesday. “So we have at least a parameter of it now, and I think we need to solidify that parameter, and figure out, next, how it was working internally. How the flow of money was moving. To contractors, to subcontractors, to sub-subcontractors, friends of friends. All of that sort of thing.”
Bensman, author of the book Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, has investigated and documented the Biden border crisis since its inception in the 2020 presidential campaign.
In light of Bensman’s reporting, President Trump has issued executive orders that halt U.S. funding to non-governmental migrant aid organizations (NGOs) that operate both inside and outside the United States.
Bensman told Rion that when the NGOs lose taxpayer funding, hundreds of them are going to close shop.
“Hundreds of them opened up only for this mass migration crisis. They were like, oh, we need a bus company. We need handlers down at the border to help migrants.”
In December, Bensman told Steve Bannon’s War Room about the need for a thorough investigation of how the invasion of ten to fifteen million people came about.
“Full-throated investigation,” he said. “Presidential committee, whatever it takes. Or the DOJ, under the new FBI director and AG. They need to have a full-throated investigation about who did what.”
Through his investigative work Bensman has already identified members of the political appointee class that he believes should be investigated for waste, fraud and abuse, as well possible criminal wrongdoing, in connection with the funding of government contractors and migrant aid NGOs.
“I wrote in my book Overrun — Chapter Four, at length — that this thing was orchestrated and engineered at the political appointee level inside the Domestic Policy Council, the DOJ, all the DHS agencies. The people that they brought in. That level of people that were in there orchestrating this came in from the NGO world, the non-governmental organization world. And they systematically undermined federal law, and statute, that required them to faithfully execute those laws, not to dismantle them.”
Bensman said he wonders, “whether they also steered contracts to their former employers, and future employers.”
In his book Overrun, Bensman reported that prior to being appointed Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas “served as a board member for the refugee resettlement agency HIAS, which advocates for the most liberal possible application of asylum regulations and opposes any kind of detention.”
He noted hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been paid to migrant aid NGOs like HIAS during the Biden administration.
SOURCES:
Chanel Rion, Fine Point with Chanel Rion. One America News Network, February 19, 2025.
Steve Bannon, War Room. Real America’s Voice, December 6, 2024.
Todd Bensman, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History. Posthill Press, 2023, p.111.
