The real number is likely a few hundred thousand more, so expect your taxes to rise By Andrew R. Arthur on October 15, 2024 On October 5, Reuters published a little-noticed article that includes a stunning factoid: “More than half a million school-age migrant children have arrived in the U.S. since 2022”. When your property taxes go up, or […]
NY Post: Trump Plan to Restart ‘My Famous Travel Ban’ was always just about Counterterrorism
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. […]
Biden-Harris DHS Already Does a Smaller Version of Trump’s ‘Cruel’ Mass Deportation of Immigrant Families – with No Media Freakout
The profound hypocrisy of the outrage machine now ginning up against Trump’s coming deportation crackdown By Todd Bensman on November 11, 2024 Democratic Party oppositionists, immigrant advocates, and their U.S. media allies are mobilized and dug in with sharpened staves for all-out political war against one of President-elect Donald Trump’s signature plans: “the greatest mass deportation in […]
Trump Needs a ‘Missing Migrant Children Task Force’
Locate the kids and save the ones who are being abused By Andrew R. Arthur on November 8, 2024 Then-candidate Joe Biden attacked then-President Donald Trump on the 2020 campaign trail for using “family separation as a weapon against desperate mothers, fathers, and children seeking safety and a better life”, and one of his first acts as president was […]
To President-Elect Trump: Beware of Duplicitous Mexican ‘Ant Operations’ to Hide a Mad Border Rush
By Todd Bensman on November 7, 2024 AUSTIN, Texas — In a New York Post column this week, I revised my earlier dark warnings that Mexico would likely unleash hundreds of thousands of migrants yearning to cross the U.S. Southwest border before Donald Trump could win a second term, take office, and dam the whole border up. I wrote […]
Policy Choices Matter When It Comes to the Level of Immigration
The president’s power when it comes to immigration is extensive By Steven A. Camarota on November 4, 2024 Although Congress sets immigration law, the administration and enforcement of those laws is the responsibility of the executive. The most recent data from the American Community Survey confirms that presidents do have a significant impact on the number of […]
EXCLUSIVE: “We pray Trump doesn’t win” TODD BENSMAN reveals why 150K migrants in Mexico are rushing the border
23 Oct 2024 By Todd Bensman For Dailymail.Com ‘I love Kamala Harris,’ a young Venezuelan man declared as he rested on the side of a highway in southern Mexico last week. His belongings were heaped at his feet. Hundreds of fellow migrants stretched out along the roadway in both directions. They’re headed for the U.S. and nearly all of them […]
Hundreds of thousands of Illegal aliens are being held in southern Mexico until US Election Day — and are eager to rush border
By Todd Bensman Published Oct. 23, 2024, 1:20 p.m. TAPACHULA, Mexico — This town near the border of Guatemala holds a migrant time bomb ready to go off just after the US presidential election. The fuse was lit in December 2023, when the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration sent senior lieutenants to Mexico to work out the details of what remains a […]
Todd Bensman: Biden-Harris Admin Cut Deal with Mexico to Hold 400k Illegals in ‘Gaza Strip of Immigration’ Near Guatemala Until After Election to Temporarily Lower Border Crossings into U.S.
October 17, 2024 Kaitlin Housler Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, called into The Michael Patrick Leahy Show while on the ground in southern Mexico as part of his work to document the U.S. border crisis. Bensman said he is documenting the holding of approximately 300,000-400,000 migrants in the Mexican cities of […]
Accidentally Released Border-Crossing Terror Suspect Added to CIS National Security Vetting Failures Database
By Todd Bensman on October 11, 2024 AColombian national on the FBI’s terrorist watch list who illegally crossed the U.S. Southwest border and was accidentally released for weeks into the interior is the latest addition to the Center for Immigration Studies’ National Security Vetting Failures database. In March 2023, the Center published the database collection to draw “remedial […]
Meanwhile at the Northern Border, a Jihadist Attack in New York Is Thwarted
Canadian mass immigration program is now a U.S. national security threat requiring a muscular diplomatic offensive By Todd Bensman on October 1, 2024 By now, many Americans are aware of the elevated national security risk of terrorist infiltrations over the U.S. southwest border, a byproduct of Biden-Harris administration policies that brought about the worst mass migration crisis in U.S. […]
Biden And Harris Fly Illegals In From The Bougiest Places On Earth Under Guise Of ‘Humanitarianism’
By: Todd Bensman, September 27, 2024 4 min read For a short time, the Biden-Harris administration paused its legally dubious “humanitarian parole” program flying foreigners to the U.S., after discovering that thousands of the required U.S.-based financial “sponsors” were fraudsters or didn’t exist. Having already imported more than 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans in need of “urgent humanitarian” rescue […]
After a brief pause due to detected fraud, the Department of Homeland Security’s illegal CBP One flights program — which brings 30,000 illegal immigrants into the U.S. every month — has been restarted.
DHS has resumed CBP One flights after OIG found fraud; threat posed by Tren de Aragua is real (Blaze News Tonight, 30 August 2024) A. S. MARTIN, MA JDAUG 31 The program is ostensibly for people from who seek entry to the United States on “humanitarian” grounds, though they lack the ability to obtain a […]
Exclusive Interview: Panama Border Security Chief Says Many U.S.-Bound Terror Suspects Caught in Darien Gap Region
The bad news: The migrant flood prompted by Biden-Harris policies means only a tiny fraction can be checked By Todd Bensman on August 28, 2024 Read more of Todd Bensman’s reporting from the Darien Gap. PANAMA CITY, Panama — In April 2022, the American public finally heard the sound of national security alarms about the U.S. southern […]
The illegal migration machine from Central America to the U.S. southern border is “oiled up and really working well
By Todd Bensman Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) August 29, 2024 🔥The migration machine is “oiled up and really working well.” TODD BENSMAN @BensmanTodd tells @SebGorka about what he saw in the migrant camps in Colombia and Panama Insight into Kamala Harris’ past and present views on border security and immigration How […]