By Jim Hᴏft Feb. 21, 2025 9:40 pm Two federal law enforcement officers coordinate with other officials on the ground during an enhanced immigration enforcement operation (Credit: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided Abby’s Bakery in South Texas, arresting eight illegal aliens and slapping the bakery’s owners with charges of harboring and […]
In the era of DOGE, how should our new Attorney General PAM BONDI and FBI director KASH PATEL approach investigating waste, fraud and abuse connected to potential criminal responsibility?
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 […]
Illegal Haitian Aliens rioted on a plane at 40,000ft during deportation efforts under the Biden Admin
Fellow at Center For Immigration Studies @BensmanTodd joins @michaelpleahy to report
Brazilian Mass Murderer Who Slipped U.S. Vetting Three Times Added to CIS Database
By Todd Bensman on February 20, 2025 Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal Filho of Brazil. Photo from an ICE press release. A former state police officer in Brazil arrested and charged in Brazil for taking part in the murder of 11 teenagers but who still got into the United States on a tourist visa and stayed for years […]
Kristi Noem has ‘personally apologized’ to horseback border agents after false accusations of whipping migrants: sources
By Jennie Taer Published Feb. 17, 2025, 6:16 p.m. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has “personally apologized” to US Border Patrol’s horseback agents after the previous Biden administration wrongly accused them of whipping migrants. Images of the horse-riding agents trying to control a surge of roughly 14,000 Haitian migrants who arrived at the small border town of […]
American Guns Are Not to Blame for Mexico’s Cartel Problem
The country’s demand to suppress U.S. gun trafficking is unmoored from facts. By Todd Bensman as published February 19, 2025 President Trump’s recent deal with Mexico has that country deploying 10,000 troops to the border. But America’s commitments in agreement have gone insufficiently examined. “For the first time, the U.S. government will work jointly to avoid […]
BORDER TRUTH ~ The Age of Awakening
I wake up every morning wondering what else happened in the middle of the night! J.J. Carrell Feb 18 Every day something huge happened. Something monumental occurred. In a normal time, just one of these stories would have dominated the news cycle for days, even weeks. Not now! President Trump is uncovering, exposing and dismantling […]
El Paso CBP officer arrested for human smuggling was allegedly in Mexican drug cartel
Border smugglers claimed to have ‘officer in their pocket’ Daniel Borunda El Paso Times A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer allegedly involved in migrant smuggling on the El Paso border was allegedly a member of a Mexican drug cartel, a federal agent testified. A federal magistrate judge ordered CBP Officer Manuel Perez Jr., 32, of El […]
Will Mexico Face A Hot Shooting War With The Cartels?
As Mexico prepares to position 10,000 troops between cartels and their drug money, odds are the lead will fly By Todd Bensman Feb 7, 2025 DailyWire.com AUSTIN, Texas – The chosen political slogan of Mexico’s last and current president, “Abrazos, no balazos” (“Hugs, not Bullets”), is often embraced to describe official government policy toward the country’s ultra-violent […]
ICE makes staggering 11K illegal migrant arrests in just 18 days — forcing agency to take over four federal prisons
By Jennie Taer Published Feb. 7, 2025, 4:59 p.m. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested an astounding 11,000 illegal migrants in the first 18 days of the Trump administration – which is already a third of the total busts the agency made last year under former President Joe Biden, The Post has learned. The arrests, part of President […]
What’s Happening in Mexico Now?
Trump’s blockaded border has forced Mexico to support thousands of foreign migrants, a burden familiar to the United State Mexican National Guard soldiers stand watch toward the Guatemala border 2021 By Todd Bensman as published February 5, 2025 by the Center for Immigration Studies Mexico is struggling to manage a swollen population of restive foreign nationals blocked […]
Todd Bensman On Confronting The Cartels: “I Think Things Are Gonna Go Kinetic”
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Kristi Noem stops taxpayer money from funding illegal migrant flood
By Todd Bensman Published Feb. 1, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET For four years, I’ve reported about how a large, organized constellation of United Nations agencies partnered with hundreds of private nonprofit groups to direct billions of mostly US-taxpayer dollars into supporting historic illegal southern border crossing levels during President Joe Biden’s term in office. Even for the […]
‘Injustice Porn’: Get Ready for the Next Big Thing on the Immigration Front
Time for Americans to recognize it as political manipulation, call it out as exploitative, and push back By Todd Bensman on January 21, 2025 Anyone wondering what kind of skullduggery is afoot to defeat the new Trump Administration’s imminent deportation operations need look no further than Bakersfield in Kern County in California’s Central Valley. Surprise Border Patrol […]
Biden’s Border Entry Phone App Was Flooded With 166 Million Appointment Requests In Just Two Years
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Jason HopkinsImmigration Reporter January 20, 20253:04 PM ET Migrants reportedly made millions of attempts to secure an asylum appointment through a phone app popularized by former President Joe Biden in just the past two years. Asylum seekers made 166 million attempts to secure an appointment with U.S. immigration officials through the CBP One […]