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Todd Bensman

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Riots and hijackings — why ICE cuffs and shackles some deportees

Riots and hijackings — why ICE cuffs and shackles some deportees

The moral of this broadly forgotten story is that cuffing and shackling adult deportees is a better-safe-than-sorry measure to prevent riots at 40,000...

17.02.2025 2

New York Post

Todd Bensman

How US taxpayers funded the largest illegal migration in history

NGOs were fed billions to keep the migrant trail going.

01.02.2025 100

New York Post

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Biden’s final border lie: That hundreds of thousands of migrants can’t be deported

The only reason hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living outside Venezuela left was because they realized President Biden would let them into the...

16.01.2025 20

New York Post

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Without A Reckoning, The First U.S. Terror Attack Caused By Open Borders Won’t Be The Last

Surprisingly little news coverage followed America’s first terror attack by an illegal border-crossing immigrant on U.S. soil. On Saturday,...

02.12.2024 40

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Why Reviving Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy Will Swiftly Reduce Border Chaos

In July 2019, I crossed the international bridge from El Paso into the sprawling Mexican border city of Juárez to gauge the effects of President...

25.11.2024 20

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Start a commission to get answers about scale of Biden’s border crisis

A bipartisan national congressional commission is acutely needed to answer the questions the Biden administration won’t on the worst mass migration...

20.11.2024 1

New York Post

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Trump plans to bring back what Dems lied and called ‘Muslim ban’ — it’s about terrorism

Not long before President Donald Trump, in his first term, issued his so-called “travel ban” on 13 countries, Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove a Honda...

15.11.2024 30

New York Post

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Even before taking office, Trump puts Mexico on spot — stop the caravans now

Recent history shows that this warning shot that Trump fired over the presidential palace has very real potential to impede any mad final mass dash...

07.11.2024 2

New York Post

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Mexico Is Holding Back A Massive Wave Of Illegal Immigrants That Will Break After The Election

TAPACHULA, Mexico – A tip led me to 40 kilometers north of this down-at-heel border city, by rental car, until I spotted the unmistakable sight: a...

31.10.2024 90

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Hundreds of thousands of migrants are being held in southern Mexico until US Election Day — and are eager to rush border

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...

23.10.2024 1

New York Post

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Liberal Canada’s lax immigration policies behind a plot to kill Jews in NYC, ‘largest attack since 9/11’

An alarming new terrorism prosecution in New York demands American attention and diplomatic pressure be turned on Canadian Prime Minister Justin...

01.10.2024 10

New York Post

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Biden And Harris Fly Migrants In From The Bougiest Places On Earth Under Guise Of ‘Humanitarianism’

For a short time, the Biden-Harris administration paused its legally dubious “humanitarian parole” program flying foreigners to the U.S., after...

27.09.2024 60

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Biden-Harris open border is destroying an indigenous tribe’s land and way of life

METETI, Panama — Not far from this small town, the 19,000-mile-long Pan-American Highway ends at a wall of jungle — the Darien Gap, a notorious...

27.08.2024 60

New York Post

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Biden/Harris made empty promises to stop migrants in Panama — but the flood continues

Nearly two months after the US pledged a “removal flights program” to support Panama, the aid is nowhere to be found and the immigrants are...

15.08.2024 100

New York Post

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Kamala Harris won’t fix Biden’s open border — she doesn’t even think illegal immigration is a crime

No matter what she might spin now that she is the Democratic Party’s heir apparent, Kamala Harris made her views on immigration clear many times:...

23.07.2024 1

New York Post

Todd Bensman

Biden’s U-Turn On Deporting Illegal Immigrants Will Last Only Until Election Day

In both my books on the border, I offer the same remedy for halting the multinational onslaught of immigrant strangers transiting the infamous...

12.07.2024 10

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