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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 […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]