Frequently over the past many years (such as here, here, and here), we have followed the reports of Todd Bensman, the ace investigator for the Center for Immigration Studies. Bensman has revealed like few others the details of the human smuggling and illegal migration racket that, especially during the Biden years, brought millions of illegals up through South and Central America to the US border. Now, after more than six years with the CIS, he is moving on as an advisor to the staff of border czar Tom Homan. To mark Bensman’s departure, on the May 22 episode of his Parsing Immigration Policy podcast, Center director Mark Krikorian conducted an “exit interview” with him, posted to the CIS website.
In the interview, Bensman summarizes his investigations on the ground of illegal migration, as documented in two Center-published books, America’s Covert Border War (2021) and Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History (2023).
According to its Amazon summary, the first book
provides a first comprehensive neutral baseline of truth about the threat, goring oxen on both sides of the partisan divide. It documents an ambitious and intrigue-laden covert American war on terror effort that stretches from the Mexican border to the tip of South America. Its existence to protect the homeland from terrorist infiltration was often regarded as entirely imagined—until migrating jihadists recently started killing and wounding hundreds in Europe.
Overrun, the second book
provides the first full account of the worst mass immigration border crisis ever to strike the United States, how and why the administration of President Joe Biden unleashed it, how it has forever altered the nation, and what voters and all future leaders need to comprehend in order to finally end it.
Concluding the podcast episode, Krikorian reviews the Center’s position on the Trump program of welcoming racial-minority South African refugees.
For more, see CIS.org.