House Overwhelmingly Passes the ‘Laken Riley Act’
The first bill considered in the 119th Congress now heads to the Senate By Andrew R. Arthur on January 8, 2025 On Tuesday, House Republicans — and 48 Democrats — voted to pass H.R. 29, the “Laken Riley Act”, a bill named after a Georgia college student killed last February by an illegal entrant who had been released into the United […]
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 […]
The Remedies: How to Lower the Risk of New Terror Strikes by Border-Crossing Islamist Extremists – First Blood, Part 3
U.S.-bound Mauritanian migrants in Costa Rica near the Nicaraguan border. 2022 Photo by Todd Bensman. By Todd Bensman on January 8, 2025 (Part 3 of 3; Part 1, Part 2.) CHICAGO, Illinois – So a border-crossing illegal immigrant has finally conducted a terror attack just as the FBI Director and the U.S. intelligence community has warned with increasing frequency […]
Part II of ‘First Blood Series’: Mystery Terrorist – The Unknown Life and Violent Times of Illegal Border-Crosser Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi
A Chicago Police officer shoots Mauritanian terrorist in a quiet Jewish neighborhood of Chicago.(Part 2 of 3 See Part I First Blood: Anatomy of a Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack) By Todd Bensman as published January 7, 2025 by the Center for Immigration StudiesCHICAGO, Illinois – If ever there was a magic moment for Americans to […]
First Blood: Anatomy of Border-Crosser’s Chicago Terror Attack Pt. 1
Broad implications for the United States from the first accused Islamic terrorist to illegally cross the southern border and shoot an American for jihad By Todd Bensman on January 6, 2025 Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi “I can tell you the threats that come from the other side of the border are very much consuming FBI field offices, not […]
The Rise and Fall of the Immigration Act of 1924: A Greek Tragedy
Doing the right thing for the wrong reason, then doing the wrong thing for the right reason By George Fishman on November 11, 2024 Summary Introduction May 26 marked the 100th anniversary of the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1924 (1924 Act). This epochal legislation ushered in a four-decade-long pause in mass immigration. Immigration averaged 820,239 a year from 1900 […]
“Temporary Protected Status” Is a Fraud
by Todd Bensman Immigrants lived for years in safe nations that should take them back. Expect conflict when President-elect Donald Trump revokes, as planned, the “Temporary Protected Status (TPS)” program that President Joe Biden massively expanded to shield almost one million immigrants from deportation. Biden did so on grounds that these illegally present immigrants cannot be returned […]
Navigating the Space Between Christmas and New Year
A New Years Introspection By Gil Maza ~ Old Patrol HQ December 28, 2028 I’m in a strangely philosophical mood so here goes. Since I can remember, I have always thought of the time and space between the day after Christmas and the day before New Year’s as a sort of mental, emotional and spiritual […]
Presidential Pardons, Are They Constitutional?
Are Presidential pardons Constitutional? The short answer is yes as per Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 which states that the Executive Branch (President of the United States) can pardon anyone who has committed any federal crime. However, let us focus on the unconstitutional pardons that we see today from Presidents from both sides of […]
‘Real deal’ illegal migrant terror suspect, 18, nabbed in NYC months after he was released at border: sources
By Jennie Taer Published Dec. 20, 2024, 5:03 p.m. ET https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/ooITynF4 An illegal migrant and suspected terrorist was arrested in New York City Monday after he was released at the border three months ago — despite authorities being aware of his alleged terror ties. Umar Farooq Ashraf, from South Africa, was nabbed at a Brooklyn apartment […]
DHS hired 13 from ‘premiere’ law firm to defend Mayorkas amid impeachment
ByAnna Giaritelli December 13, 2024 1:50 pm The Department of Homeland Security hired 13 employees from a prestigious, private law firm to defend Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as he faced impeachment proceedings in the House and Senate earlier this year, according to information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. The DHS spent $1,625,815.26 in federal taxpayer money on more than […]
EXCLUSIVE: The bizarre new rumor about Biden that’s convincing TRAIN-SURFING migrants to rush to the US in the next 48 hours
By TODD BENSMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 12:01 EST, 16 December 2024 | Updated: 13:08 EST, 16 December 2024 HUEHUETOCA, Mexico – There were no signs of human life, just railroad tracks and a rough dirt road, six miles west of a small Mexican mountain town. But this was definitely the place described to me. On a recent trip to Mexico City’s sprawling migrant […]
The Misinformed Informational Age
Generation Z is the most misinformed generation in the history of man. Before all you young folks get all worked up in a frenzy, please note that I am speaking in general terms. Every time I turn around there’s a member of Generation Z there to remind me that they live in the informational age. […]
EXCLUSIVE: What I discovered inside teeming Mexican migrant camps that proves Trump’s hardline policy is already working
By TODD BENSMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 08:51 EST, 10 December 2024 | Updated: 08:55 EST, 10 December 2024 President-elect Donald Trump won’t take office for another five weeks, but his election is already causing a sea change in America’s illegal immigration crisis. In sprawling migrant camps across Mexico City, people are giving up their plans to cross into the United States and are instead […]
Top Mexican cartel leaders are ordering that members retaliate against Border Patrol Agents in the San Diego
By Ali Bradley 12/6/2024 EXCLUSIVE Top Mexican cartel leaders are ordering that members retaliate against agents in the San Diego sector by shooting at them—The order comes in response to a Border Patrol agent hitting a suspected cartel member with their patrol vehicle during what CBP describes as a “smuggling event.” Video: The individual got […]