Now Available Everywhere The new book by journalist-turned-intelligence analyst Todd Bensman, AMERICA’S COVERT BORDER WAR, is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and anywhere books are sold. This 13-year work of journalism reveals, for the first time, secret (ongoing) border security operations that America built after 9/11 to…

By Todd Bensman as originally published April 27, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — Having covered the politically taboo threat issue of Islamic terrorist border crossings and even written a book about it, I have long had to contend with ungenerous government agencies that jealously guard…

By Todd Bensman as originally published April 26, 2022 by Townhall Media AUSTIN, Texas — In 2018, when President Donald Trump said Islamic terrorist suspects were crossing America’s southern border among Central American caravans — just about everyone with a megaphone called him a fear-mongering, anti-immigrant liar. But the sound…

By Todd Bensman as originally published January 4, 2022 by the Center for Immigration Studies U.S. Border Patrol agents near Calexico, Calif., recently detained an Afghan migrant who crossed from Mexico, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection activity log document obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies. “Ahmad…

Suggests breakdown in cross-border coordination amid overwhelming mass-migration crisis By Todd Bensman as originally published December 28, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — On November 20, the government of Mexico released a Yemeni migrant who was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list — on condition that he “report weekly” to Mexican immigration authorities, according to…

Agency’s own records say, of course: handouts of debit cards, ‘hard cash in envelopes,’ money for lodging, and even ‘movement assistance’ By Todd Bensman as originally published December 16, 2021 by The Federalist AUSTIN, Texas — One of the most widely shared of my Tweets from a recent field trip…

‘There are no organizations that are fighting for our human rights’ By Todd Bensman as originally published December 13, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies WASHINGTON, DC — The leader of the Embera Tribe left his jungle homeland in Panama’s Darien Gap and came to the nation’s capital last week with an SOS message to the American people: a record-setting…

By Todd Bensman as originally published October 20, 2021 by the Center for Immigration Studies AUSTIN, Texas — In a dive into new political and legal water, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has executed the first-ever border security operations in which thousands of National Guard troops — newly imbued with civilian…

As originally published October 14 by the Center for Immigration Studies