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Join us this week on Breaking Battlegrounds as Chuck and Sam first welcome Philip Klein, editor of National Review Online, to discuss Jimmy Carter's true legacy and the real scandal behind Biden's death row pardons. Later, Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, delves into the national security threats stemming from Biden's open borders, including potential ISIS sleeper cells in the U.S., the New Orleans terror attack, Trump's plans to reinstate the "ungoverned country" travel ban, and the Mexican government's role in facilitating Islamic terrorism. Stay tuned for Kiley's Corner, where she shares the tragic story of a family who died after eating a poisoned Christmas cake and the Arizona Good Samaritan murdered while helping someone jump-start their car. Listen now on Breaking Battlegrounds!www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegroundsShow sponsors:Invest YrefyYrefy offers a secure, collateralized portfolio with a strong, fixed rate of return - up to a 10.25%. There is no attack on your principal if you ever need your money back. You can let your investment compound daily, or take your income whenever you choose. Make sure you tell them Sam and Chuck sent you!Learn more at investyrefy.com4Freedom MobileExperience true freedom with 4Freedom Mobile, the exclusive provider offering nationwide coverage on all three major US networks (Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile) with just one SIM card. Our service not only connects you but also shields you from data collection by network operators, social media platforms, government agencies, and more.Use code ‘Battleground' to get your first month for $9 and save $10 a month every month after.Learn more at: 4FreedomMobile.comDot VoteWith a .VOTE website, you ensure your political campaign stands out among the competition while simplifying how you reach voters.Learn more at: dotvote.voteAbout our guests:Philip Klein is the editor of National Review Online. You can follow him on X @philipaklein.-Todd Bensman serves as the Senior National Security Fellow at Center for Immigration Studies. He is the author of "Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History" and "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration". You can follow him on X @BensmanTodd and read his work at toddbensman.com. Get full access to Breaking Battlegrounds at breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com/subscribe

Operation Burning Edge is still ongoing as the crisis at our borders is now to DEFCON 1. While Michael Yon has been sounding the alarm on this since 2021, immediately after the installation of Joe Biden, another gentleman by the name of Todd Bensman, Senior National Security FellowAt the Center for Immigration Studies has recently returned from a trip down to central and south America where he just published his most recent report on the status of migrant flows and the politics concerning the situation down there.He is the author of "Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History" and "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration".Prior to joining CIS in August 2018, Bensman led homeland security intelligence efforts for nine years in the public sector. Bensman's body of work with policy and intelligence operations is founded on more than 20 years of experience as an award-winning journalist covering national security topics, with particular focus on the Texas border.Joining me now for what should be quite compelling, Todd Bensman.Major (ret) Gerald Malloy is running for US Senate from Vermont and is going to fire Bernie Sanders once and for all. He has strong constitutional values. A breath of fresh air!Follow Ann Vandersteel on Pickax: https://pickax.com/annvandersteelProtect your financial future with precious metals! Download your FREE Gold and Silver Guide from Genesis Gold today and take control of your financial destiny! https://genesispreciousmetals.comElevate your meals with Freedom First Beef… even if you find yourself in the middle of the apocalypse! Use code FFN for 25% off and enjoy high-quality beef whenever you crave it – today or tomorrow! https://freedomfirstbeef.comBe ready for anything life throws your way with The Wellness Company's Medical Emergency Kit. Order today using code FFN for a 10% discount at https://twc.health/ffn.Unleash the spirit of liberty in every cup with Freedom First Coffee's Founders Blend. Order now using code RIGHTNOW and savor the unparalleled taste of freedom in every patriotic sip. https://freedomfirstcoffee.com

Show Notes and Transcript Todd Bensman, a Senior National Security Fellow, joins Hearts of Oak to discuss his book "OVERRUN" focusing on how Joe Biden's policies have led to the current border crisis. He highlights the role of progressive Democrats in this issue and emphasizes that most immigrants are seeking economic opportunities. Todd talks about the collaboration between the US and Mexico, the use of technology for legal crossings, and challenges posed by individuals from terrorism-prone countries. He suggests immediate deportation measures and disrupting support networks as potential solutions to the crisis, stressing informed decision-making.  Todd's insights provide valuable perspectives on immigration policies and their implications. OVERRUN: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History Available from Amazon in book e-book and audio-book  https://amzn.eu/d/233iYg9 Todd Bensman is an editorialist and investigative author of the 2023 book OVERRUN, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History and also America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. The two-time National Press Club award winner, a former journalist of 23 years, currently serves as the Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington, D.C. policy institute for which he writes reporting-based opinion editorials, speaks, and grants media interviews about the nexus between immigration and national security. He frequently reports from the southern border, traveling widely inside Mexico and in Central America. He has testified before Congress as an expert witness and regularly appears on radio and television outlets to discuss illegal immigration and border security matters. He writes columns and editorials about homeland security and terrorism subjects for The New York Post, The Daily Mail Online, The American Mind, Homeland Security Today, Townhall, The Federalist, The Daily Wire, The National Interest, and other publications. He serves as a Writing Fellow for the Middle East Forum and also teaches terrorism, intelligence analysis, and journalism as a university adjunct lecturer. For nearly a decade prior to joining CIS in August 2018, Bensman led counterterrorism intelligence for the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division and its multi-agency fusion center. Before his homeland security service, Bensman worked as a reporter for more than two decades, covering national security after 9/11 as an investigative staff writer for major newspapers Connect with Todd... X/TWITTER       x.com/BensmanTodd GETTR               gettr.com/user/tbensman TRUTH              truthsocial.com/@toddbensman WEBSITE           www.toddbensman.com Interview recorded  17.6.24 Connect with Hearts of Oak... X/TWITTER        x.com/HeartsofOakUK WEBSITE            heartsofoak.org PODCASTS        heartsofoak.podbean.com SOCIAL MEDIA  heartsofoak.org/connect SHOP                  heartsofoak.org/shop *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com and follow him on X/Twitter x.com/TheBoschFawstin Transcript (Hearts of Oak) I'm delighted to have Todd Bensman join me today, just after he was on the WarRoom, actually. Todd, it's great to have you. Thanks so much for giving us your time. (Todd Bensman) Happy to do it. Thank you. No, not at all. Just for, obviously, people can find you @BensmanTodd on Twitter, and ToddBensman.com is the website. We'll get into all of those. You currently serve as Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. You're the author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, published just over a year ago, and America's Covert Border War, the Untold Story of Nations Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. I would love to talk to you just on that book, but I'm going to keep it wider on immigration. And of course, you've over 20 years in journalism. And you've got an interesting mix, I think, Todd, of kind of policy intelligence and journalism. And when I mentioned to some friends in the States, I was catching up with you over there. They all said, Todd, he's the real deal. He's one of the few journalists that really understand what is happening in terms of the border and the invasion. Now, obviously, the WarRoom, they know you. Maybe they're UK viewers. We have half and half US-UK. So maybe for the UK viewers, could you introduce yourself, Todd? Yeah, I thought you did a pretty good job there. But yeah, I work for a think tank out of DC that that deals with immigration. Prior to that, had a career, full career as a newspaper reporter for 23 years. That's my main background. I got a undergraduate and graduate degree in journalism. And then when I finished my journalism career, I was recruited to join the Texas Department of Public Safety, which is the big state police agency here in Texas to to work in their intelligence division which I did for another ten years after that so I definitely and then I have another master's degree in homeland defense and security from the Naval Postgraduate School, So I have that kind of a hybridized background and now I'm working for a think tank. So I'm kind of bringing it all together in one place, you know, reporting down on the border all the time, down in Central America, all over Mexico, all over our border to kind of get, you know, a bird's eye view of what's actually happening on the ground. And probably interviewed thousands of immigrants down there over the last few years. Well, maybe I can just start, touch on the book Overrun: How Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in U.S. history. I've had it as an audio book and I've been listening to it. I know it's available hardback and paperback. And on the back, it says the time has come to acknowledge and comprehend that America is weathering the worst mass border migration event in the nation's history. Millions of foreign nationals have overrun the border starting on Inauguration Day 2021, and millions will flow over until the end of President Joe Biden's term in 2024. Maybe you can tell me why you wanted to put it together, because it is a comprehensive overview of the Biden administration, actually what they have done in terms of mass immigration. So maybe what led you up to beginning to put pen to paper and actually bringing this book together? [4:12] Sure. Well, remember, I live in Texas. I've been doing journalism in Texas and Intel. So I'm very familiar with the numbers in any average year. And I saw that what was happening that started on Inauguration Day was something really large, unusually large. It was a really mammoth event. I could tell within six months, the numbers had broken every record in the U.S. history books of people coming over. And when you have an event, and then it just kept going, I mean, it was just like, it never stopped. The numbers just were absolutely in the millions and millions a year that we know about, that we just caught, with millions more going through uncaught. And I recognize that we're in the middle of a historic event in American history, history and maybe even world history and to me, maybe it's the old journalist in me it seems like when history is in the making and you're in position to see it somebody should write a book, you should write a book about that, that warrants a book at least, a first brush at recording this history and I hope others will follow in my footsteps and keep going, right now I'm the only one, though. Yeah, that's what it seems. I mean, what was the there must have been pushback because there have been quite a number of journalists who go to the border. It seems to be for a trip for footage and go away. And you seem to have really understood more of what is happening. I'm sure there must have been some pushback from different sources because the story you tell is a harrowing tale of the destruction and dismantling of American borders. Well, I mean, it's the book and the story of what happened here today falls right evenly, squarely on the partisan divide. The American left completely ignores my book, will not acknowledge it or even take it on or try to challenge it, which they probably view as providing oxygen to the ideas in it. Or not the ideas, but the actual reporting on the ground of what happened there. And on the conservative right, there's immediate acceptance of all of this information. There's no problem at all. My hope is that 25 years from now or 50 years from now, we won't be in this weird partisan divide. And historians will use my book and find value in it for some future time, really. I mean, I think that's the best I can hope for. But I mean, there really hasn't been much pushback from the left, except in terms of just sort of indifference, because you can't tackle it or challenge it without creating oxygen flow into the ideas. So I think the idea is that they've just decided that it's not really happening. This isn't true, that sort of thing, that it's just sort of a blip. And the Biden administration took that position officially for two years straight before they finally acknowledged that something kind of unusual was happening down there. They would deny that there was anything wrong routinely, that anything was up at all. And whenever they did that, the American media would just comply. They would just agree and swallow that and move along. So, you know, on the one hand, I think that's sort of official denialism and indifference is bad for America. At least this generation of Americans. But for me, as a former reporter and journalist, it's like wheee, this is the best thing. I own this thing. I'm all alone down there with this incredible historic event. And for that, I'm very grateful that they that they did leave off. But I also know it's bad for America. I know. I mean, it does seem so. Biden has systematically neutralized all immigration enforcement laws. And obviously, it's not just him, if anything, it's him. But that's a whole other conversation. But there has to be a group within the White House who have planned this because that collapse of immigration does not just happen naturally. There are systems in place. So that had to be dismantled. Does that mean there is a grouping that have come together to actually systematically deconstruct those immigration policies? Yes, that's exactly what happened. I lay that out in very granular detail in the book, Chapter 4, The New Theologians in particular. I think it's helpful to understand first that the U.S. Democratic Party historically has not been very far apart policy-wise from the Republicans on border security. Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have always enforced the law to the best that they could and most definitely did not want mass migration. When mass migration influxes would happen, they were right on it to try to wrestle it to the ground and they would pass laws. And, they understood that the U.S. Legal system is very well equipped and written to prevent mass migration crises. So it's not the traditional Democratic Party, but it's what happened in 2020 was that a liberal progressive faction that is on the far fringes of the traditionalists in the Democratic Party who rode the coattails in with Biden for various reasons, partly because he hurried them. He needed their vote. He needed their vote to get the nomination first. And then he needed his vote to defeat Donald Trump, needed their vote to defeat Donald Trump. And he owed them. And what they wanted was the immigration portfolio. Those people come from a whole other cut of cloth. They have an ideology. I call them the new theologians because it's like a religion, this ideology, and they took it from Europe. It's the European neoliberal progressives that they took it from, which holds that border enforcement and borders themselves are immoral and cruel and must be abolished in the same way that slavery was abolished once upon a time or in the U.S. Jim Crow laws were wrong and cruel. And they got into all of the positions of authority over the immigration portfolio. And they're smart. And a lot of them are lawyers and they systematically dismantled all of the instrumentality of enforcement at the border and put policies in place that absolutely guaranteed to, like an 80 plus percent chance that if you showed up at our southern border on foot, you were going to get in forever. I mean, it seems as though some states, some Democrats have woken up as I've read about immigrants getting bussed or flown around. Certainly Texas has tried to make a point on that. And you've got Democrat mayors saying, oh, suddenly they don't like it. They get angry and how dare you do this. Has that woken up? I mean, specifically in New York, when Adam started pushing back on that, has that opened up a rift in the Democrat Party or is that just quietened down again? Well, the liberal progressive wing of the party, I think, understood that most Americans don't live anywhere near the border, don't see it. It's see no evil, hear no evil, etc. And I think they were relying on that unique circumstance to get away with what they were doing. And as long as they had a compliant traditional media and the president of the United States and all of his chief lieutenants saying it's not happening, there's nothing happening down there, then they could get away with it. And they did for a couple of years because most Americans aren't down there. They don't understand. It's like, oh, the right wing media is down there. Let's just, they're lying, you know, disinformation. and eventually the pipeline backed up. To the point with people in all of these cities, because millions of people were just pouring over in massive torrents, unbelievable torrents of humanity all day, every day, just pouring in with no media coverage. But eventually, they had to go somewhere and live. So the pipeline backed up and it burst in all these cities, Chicago, New York, Denver, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, LA, every city in the United States, all over Florida. You couldn't get away with it. You couldn't get away. You could not avert your eyes from it. Now it was in people's backyards and they were mad about it. Did not like what they were seeing, the massive amounts of resources, municipal budgets that were being diverted to illegal immigrants over native born or residents in their cities who needed the money and needed the programs. Created a lot of anger. And it's in everybody's face. You can go into any American airport and they're all over the place. They're in every terminal, flying still going from here to there. So well We'll get into flying a little bit another point in the book you talked about kind of the relationship between Mexico and the U.S I think you said within like 48 hours legislation was passed in Mexico and it seemed to be that they were ready in conjunction with Biden with people ready to just push over the border as soon as as Biden came in, tell us more about kind of how that works, that kind of relationship between Mexico and what part they've had to play in this. Sure. Well, first of all, you have to remember that, you know, when Trump was still in office, he had a mass migration too, but he wrestled it down like Democrats and Republicans always do, until now. He wrestled it down and he put policies in place that were pushback policies. Remain in Mexico, and then after that for COVID. And these were very, very effective. And they resulted in, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of immigrants being captured by Border Patrol, and instead of admitted into the United States were pushed back to Mexico. And that was going on for the full year of the last the last year of Trump in office. The Mexicans, of course, hated this because they got stuck with the hot potato, right? You know, that game. And it was expensive and they were filling up all of the Mexican detention centers. They were immigrants still pouring into Mexico and being pushed from the United States. And it was this terrible situation for them. And so the Mexicans were listening to the Biden campaign saying, we're going to let everybody in. We're going to be nice and kind and gentle, and we're going to get rid of the COVID pushbacks, we're going to get rid of the remain in Mexico pushbacks, etc. And they waited until the election. 48 hours after the election, the Mexican parliament passed a law that got no coverage, either on the Mexican side or on the US side, that forced, quote unquote, Mexico to empty all all of its detention centers of family units within 60 days or after 60 days. So that by the time Biden was going to enter office, they would be waiting at the border for the transition. That's what happened. They released tens of thousands to the border. They rushed up there and they knew that on the transition day, Biden was going to let them all in. And even though there was COVID restrictions, he was saying, we're going to get rid of those. We're going to end Title 42, which was the COVID pushbacks. And in the end, he couldn't do it for legal reasons, but he still opened vast exemptions in the COVID pushback rule so that all of those people could come in. And so at noon, January 21, you could see them just pouring in. It began hundreds of thousands on that day at that hour when the clock struck noon on Inauguration Day. They were on the march and it never ended. Wow. I thought actually just, I know there's a little pushback on it. Whenever I was over in Texas, I talked to some people and they said, you know, it's not really as bad because if it was, we would be drowning in people. We go about our lives normally in Fort Worth or in Dallas or down in Austin and it seems fine. How do you respond to that? If people don't see it, then they don't necessarily believe it's happening. Well, I think that there are still places where people can, if they choose, can choose not to see it. But it's in every community. I mean, there's six, eight million people in 36 months across that border. Now, we're a nation of 350 million. So there's still room to fan out. But if you're talking about Fort Worth, I would just point you to their school district, which is absolutely completely smashed and overwhelmed with migrant kids. And there's no space for them. And Fort Worth is having to pass bond elections that increase taxes to pay for more classroom space and temporary buildings and teachers and all the rest of that. And they can't even close to come up, keep up with it. And, I mean, really any school district in the country is facing something that looks just like that. So Fort Worth is definitely, if you want to see it, you can see it. What's that movie, Don't Look Up, you know, where the big meteor is coming? There are plenty of people that got away for a long time without looking up and said there's no meteor coming. No meteor coming but they're here and they're here by the millions and all you got to do is look up. I get that maybe if you go down to California, that a Californian government doesn't really care unhappily for its state to be even more destroyed, where you look at Texas you expect there to be pushback and yes there maybe isn't the wall that was expected but you'd expect the National Guard troops to be there pushing back. But that doesn't seem to have happened in a way that maybe I naively would have expected as a Brit thinking, don't worry, Texas have got this. It doesn't seem to be the case. Is that a fair assessment? Yes. I mean, Texas has done more than any other state in the country to get some sort of a control handle on what's happening at the border. But ultimately, as a state, they have no authority whatsoever to actually put policies in place that deter the immigrants from coming through Texas. And what I mean by that is, if you're an immigrant and you cross our border and we let you in, you have to be deported in order to have a deterrent. Like if you spend $10,000 on smuggling fees and you get deported afterwards, and that's a loss, a massive loss, you're in debt, you lost $10,000, you're going to stay home. You're going to stay home. But Texas hasn't been able to do that because behind them is the Federal Border Patrol, who are under orders to usher everybody that they can get their hands on into the country forever. So, if Texas can't deport them and the federal government won't, the federals are going to win out there. I don't mean to diminish what Texas is doing. They're doing a lot of good in other ways. They're catching drug smugglers, lots and lots of them, drug loads, arresting a lot of people smugglers, and breaking up stash houses and patrolling areas where border patrol is not there. So, and with helicopters. And so they're, I think, countering a lot of kind of basic criminality from the border crisis. But ultimately they can't really return immigrants or deport them back to their home countries that's a too big of a of a federal job Tell us about, because there are two aspects, there's the aspect of governments and how they cooperate and the economic pull and push but it's also the individuals and you mentioned the beginning, you had interviewed many of those coming over but did any of those stand out to surprise you? What were, as you got down the nitty gritty and heard the personal stories, how did that impact you and what did you take away from that? I mean, in broad brushstrokes, my big takeaway from interviewing literally thousands of immigrants is on their way in before they get lawyered up or before they're in US control or in custody, that they all are coming because we're letting them in. That's like the big take. I know it sounds simple, but you'd be surprised at how many regular Americans can't really get their head around that or just won't believe it, that they're not fleeing something terrible. They're not fleeing criminality. They're not fleeing government persecution. They almost never talk about that. They're coming for jobs and to earn more money and to enhance their lifestyles. They want to adopt the very famous indulgent American lifestyle. They want to live here. We have a lot of space. We have a lot of money. We're giving a lot of money away. You can earn if you want, or if you don't want to earn, you can get on the public welfare system and live very well. So it's very, I guess, universal, that, that a they're not really fleeing terrible harms at all. They are coming to something much like a good corollary to this would be maybe the California gold rush, where they found a couple of nuggets in the hills in California. And the second word got back east. We had wagon trains and of people rushing to the California gold rushes, not, they weren't fleeing something terrible in Pennsylvania, or they were just kind of poor. And maybe they figured they could do better with this big grand adventure. That I just liken this to that. And people don't really understand that. They're like, oh, these poor immigrants, we must give them sanctuary. That's not what this is. That's, They're like gold prospectors from 1840, more than they are Vietnamese boat people or Jews fleeing the Holocaust. And on that, I just want to pick up one or two stories that you put up recently on the website and on Centre for Immigration Studies. And I think last month, the story was a secret finally revealed, Americans can know the US cities, receiving hundreds of thousands of immigrants flying from abroad. That was May last month. And you'd said a House committee data release confirms a Centre for Immigration Studies report that you had done. But tell us about that information, because you'd expect you expect information to be public. And then after a while, you realize when you delve deeper, actually, it's set up. So the public aren't supposed to really be aware of what's happening. But you're able to list those cities. Tell us a little bit about that. Well, one thing that the Biden administration felt like it needed to do was remove the appearance of mass chaos of thousands of people. Moving between the ports of entry over the border. Once it got to a certain point, there would be some media would go down there and it just looked awful. And it got in the way of them being able to deny that anything unusual was happening when you would have these huge, you know, surging people. So they came up with programs that would let would-be planning aspiring border crossers to stay in Mexico for a little while longer and apply on a cell phone app. To cross quote unquote legally. They could schedule their illegal crossings at a land bridge or they could schedule on a phone or on a computer in their home countries to fly directly into the United States from their foreign airports and therefore remove themselves and their numbers from the total coming through illegally so that they wouldn't draw as much attention. Those are called parole programs. There's a flight one where they're flying directly and there's a land one where you can walk across at the invitation of CBP, U.S. Border and Customs and Border Protection over the land ports. To date, we've got almost 900,000 people have entered the United States through these kind of created admissions programs. But then as soon as they announced them, the administration just shut up about them and nobody asked what was happening with them until I came along and I put in Freedom of Information Act requests. I wanted to know how many, which nationalities were crossing at the land, how many were flying in, which airports were they flying into, which ones were they flying from. So the story that's out right now, the most recent one is about the airports that they're flying from. These are four nationalities for this program, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans. And the idea is we're going to bring them, let them fly in because they're under dire humanitarian stress. We need to rescue them. That's the purpose of the program. We're rescuing people. But when I got my hands on the country of departure list, I found that they were authorizing these flights from all over Europe. Europe, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, Iceland, Israel, all of the Gulf states, Australia, from places that could not even remotely be called dangerous or where anybody living there could ever claim a humanitarian need to obtain American protection and sanctuary. So this just kind of gives lie to all of the way that they are justifying this thing, this huge admissions program by air that you need to escape from Japan. You're a Cuban and living in Japan and you have to escape from Barbados and Aruba and the Virgin Islands, all these kind of vacation spots, these beautiful jewels of vacation wonderlands is just absurd, nobody who knows this information could possibly now accept what the administration is saying about that program or even about the one where they're crossing the land bridges too. Well we had the same issue in Europe where everyone wanted to to get to the UK despite being in safe country after safe country after safe country in Europe, so we had the same issues. Right the whole thing, asylum there and here is just a complete bogus lie, all of it is just there is no practical use nobody coming to these countries is really looking for asylum. They're using the asylum system to just get in. And then it's like, deport me. I dare you. Track me down and deport me. And of course, there's no will to do deportations in liberal governments like the Biden administration. There's none at all. And they all know it. Or the UK. We don't deport either. We just bring people in. What's the, you talked about the phone app and you talked about disagreement. This isn't agreement with NGO. Is this agreements with countries on how to actually bring illegals back and forward? Can you rephrase the question? So you talked about the phone app that people can actually go on and then they can organize it ahead. And you talked about coming from safe countries. Is this movement, is this organized by governments, you seem to say, or is it NGOs? Right. Well, I mean, most of it is self, I would say, is self-propelled, but it's informed self-propulsion. So, the United Nations has established networks of support all along way stations, all along the illegal immigrant trails in Latin America and also in Europe. They're everywhere. Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, medical, whatever you need along the route, these organizations, the United Nations, UNHCR, IOM, and many other UN agencies, as well as, you know, hundreds of NGOs have gotten in on the action too. Almost all of it is in the U.S. is funded by the U.S. State Department and taxpayers. I think most Americans don't really understand that the facilitation is that they're funding the facilitation of all of this. And I believe that there are a great many immigrants that would have just stayed home out of uncertainty about the ardour of the trail. Were it not for all of these NGOs, all along the way, they're getting legal support and coaching and assistance of every possible kind so that nobody ever really want for anything. And that's got to play on the decision-making process to leave home. Of course it does. It's also the mass economic hit, but it's also the terrorist side. And again, you've put a post up about the recent arrests of the Tajikistani border crossers for terrorism and commented that you had actually testified before Congress on this last year about terrorist entry through the southwest border. Tell us about that wasn't on my radar at all. Do you want to fill us in a little bit on that? Sure. Well, I mean, this is when I was in the intelligence business and in my last few years as a journalist, I reported and worked extravagantly on the issue of immigrants coming from terror harboring countries over our southern border. And I wrote an entire book about this. I still to this day am the author of the only book about terrorist infiltration and what we do about it here in the United States over our southern border. It's called America's Covert Border War. It's all about this. And I've been warning about this for years. Well, now what we're seeing in the crush of humanity that has overwhelmed all of our counterterrorism programs and protocols down there, we're now starting to see terror attacks, terror plots in very recent times. One of them is the Tajikistanis that you mentioned. That's only the most recent one. Eight Tajikistanis arrested earlier in June, the first week of June, in three American cities. They all came over the border. One of them used the phone app that I mentioned earlier. The other ones we're not sure. They could have used the phone app or just crossed illegally. And the FBI got a sting operation going and just arrested all of them. And we don't have a whole lot more information about that case. They're sandbagging. But just a month ago, we had two Jordanians illegally present in the U.S. Conduct a vehicle ramming attack with a big box truck on Quantico Marine Corps base. One of them had just the month before in April of this year crossed the southern border from Mexico. He ends up over in the Washington, D.C. area, northern Virginia, doing some sort of a truck attack on a major military installation that also happens to be a big FBI training academy, very, you know, rich in targeting symbology, right? So. We also have had a Russian cross the border and get caught up. He's from Chechnya area, get caught up in a major terrorism sting. He's sending thousands of dollars to an Al Qaeda group in Syria. The FBI said that they believe that he had they not arrested him in January of this year. I'm sorry. I think it was in 2022. They arrested him that he would have gone kinetic or they thought he may go violent himself, operational, not just sending money. So we've seen 360 people from the Middle East who were already on the FBI's terrorism watch list cross our border. Biggest record by far that we've ever seen in numbers like that. In the book, America's Covert Border War, I point out in the entire first chapter that Europe suffered a series, an unending series of terror attacks from one end of the continent to the other, including in the UK, from immigrants that came in on the 2014-2015 mass migration wave. And I used that in my entire first chapter to warn that this could happen to the United States, were we to have a similar mass migration event. That book published in January, February 2021. So it was a little early, just as this thing was getting started. But here we are. Todd just to finish off can I ask you the solution to this mess and does aTrump administration coming in, does that fix it? Is this too big? has this are there too many people actually in the country and no knowledge of who they are, I mean what kind of is possibly the solution to the mass U.S. finds herself in? I mean, I believe that the incoming humanity can be shut off in about 30 minutes. That's like as fast as they started it, they could end that by just simply pushing everybody back to Mexico. 100%. Everybody goes back to Mexico. That's what Trump was doing. That's why the numbers were so low at the end of the Trump term. So there's Remain in Mexico, there's policies where you can push people back and not let them apply for asylum. They can apply in Mexico. Mexico is a safe country or somewhere else. Those are all doable. And nobody wants to spend $5,000 or $10,000 crossing if you know you're going to get pushed back. You're going to lose your money. It's that simple. It's literally that simple. When I interview immigrants, that's what they tell me. Yeah, we waited until Trump was gone because we would have lost all our money. It's that simple. So it's a cost benefit ratio calculation that every smart immigrant makes, so that the numbers can go down. Now, it's a much steeper hill or mountain to climb to deport eight million people. That is something that the Trump campaign is promising to do. I believe that they will definitely get some kind of a monumental deportation program underway. They're going to take heat for that. There'll be political, there'll be lawsuits, there'll be all kinds of blowback. And so, but the important thing is that when people at home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, see that the administration is rounding up and wants to round up all Hondurans, they're going to stay home. Just the messaging of some of that is going to deter a lot. And I also think that the administration probably will punish the NGOs and disrupt their flow of cash and remove the network of support that is so alluring for them. So it's, he may not be able to deport that many people in four years but he may not need to. Todd I really appreciate you coming on, immigration is certainly the big topic, even here in the UK, and our election three weeks away as it is over with you for November, I think the best place is obviously the books, all the links in the description, people can follow you on Twitter, but I think certainly go to the website, toddbensman.com, and people can sign up to your newsletter. I think that's probably the best way of keeping in contact with the information you're putting out. Yes, that's right. Awesome. Well, Todd, thank you so much for coming on today and sharing your experiences on this huge issue. Thank you, and good luck over there in Europe, a couple of years ago, they arrested five Tajikistanis there plotting to blow up US military installations in Germany. Yeah, it's the same struggle we face all across the West, but thank you certainly for highlighting this.

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CAPT. JAMES FANELL, Retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute Is the U.S. in a “decade of concern”? When will China be ready for an invasion of Taiwan? How the U.S. intelligence community has failed to recognize the threat of China How did China's economy expand so quickly? DR. ANDREW BOSTOM, Author, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism Have mainstream Muslim organizations condemned the October 7 attacks by Hamas? A history of anti-Semitism in the United States TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,  America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, @BensmanTodd How many migrants are coming across the southern border each day? A decrease in vetting of these migrants Are Chinese spies coming across the border? Is the United Nations pushing more migrants to the U.S.?

DR. BRADLEY THAYER, Director of CSP's China Policy program What is the point of bilateral meetings between the U.S. and China? What are “American secessionists”? China's reliance on the U.S. for economic strength Does the U.S. have a military relationship with China? JAMES HIRSEN, Author, Tales from the Left Coast The importance of leverage in Congress Ongoing budget negotiations within Congress What is an omnibus bill? Comparing Speaker Mike Johnson with Kevin McCarthy TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,  America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, @BensmanTodd What is “Attachment A”? What was the Holy Land Foundation? Hamas “sleeper cells” residing in the United States

Todd Bensman is the Center for Immigration Studies Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow. He is the author of “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History” and “America's Cover Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration”.Prior to joining The Center for Immigration Studies, Bensman led homeland security intelligence efforts in the public sector. Bensman's body of work with policy and intelligence operations is founded on more than 20 years of experience as an award-winning journalist covering national security topics, with particular focus on the Texas border.Learn More About Bensman: https://cis.org/BensmanRead Benman's Daily Mail Article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589871/mexico-cartel-texas-invasion-border-war-todd-bensman.htmlOrder Bensman's Latest Book: https://www.toddbensman.com/overrun-book/Follow Bensman on Social Media: @BensmanToddSUPPORT OUR WORK https://www.judicialwatch.org/donate/thank-youtube/ VISIT OUR WEBSITE http://www.judicialwatch.org

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and author of "Overrun, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History," to discuss the escalating crisis at the southern border, the massive illegal immigrant colony in Texas, what immigrants really think and how they decide to come to America or stay home, and what federal policies can solve this crisis on day two of a new administration.#ToddBensman #Border #SouthernBorder #BorderWall #Immigration #MassMigration #IllegalImmigrationTodd Bensman is the author of "Overrun," and also "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration." The two-time National Press Club award winner, a former journalist of 23 years, currently serves as the Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington, D.C. policy institute for which he writes, speaks, and grants media interviews about the nexus between immigration and national security. He frequently reports from the southern border, traveling widely inside Mexico and in Central America. He has testified before Congress as an expert witness and regularly appears on radio and television outlets to discuss illegal immigration and border security matters.Learn more about Todd Bensman's work at:https://www.toddbensman.com/https://cis.org/Bensman––––––Follow American Moment across Social Media:Twitter – https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrgFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/AmMomentOrgInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/ammomentorg/YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4TcgRumble – https://rumble.com/c/ammomentorgCheck out AmCanon:https://www.americanmoment.org/amcanon/Follow Us on Twitter:Saurabh Sharma – https://twitter.com/ssharmaUSNick Solheim – https://twitter.com/NickSSolheimAmerican Moment's "Moment of Truth" Podcast is recorded at the Conservative Partnership Center in Washington DC, produced by American Moment Studios, and edited by Jake Mercier and Jared Cummings.Subscribe to our Podcast, "Moment of Truth"Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moment-of-truth/id1555257529Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5ATl0x7nKDX0vVoGrGNhAj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CAPT. JAMES FANELL, Retired Intelligence Officer for the Indo-Pacific, US Navy, former National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institute China's recent military aggression towards the United States and Taiwan How China has been developing their military specifically to take down Taiwan An "internal rot" within the U.S. military Has China overtaken the U.S. as the world's leading naval force? PASTOR LUCAS MILES, Host of the Epoch Times Church & State with Lucas Miles The spectrum of "woke" How the Marxist movement has "adapted" over the years A "subtle" influence of Marxism on Christianity in the U.S. TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,  America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, @BensmanTodd The impact of Title 42's end on the southern border Why did the Biden administration end DNA testing for children at the border? MICHAEL YON, Former Green Beret, Independent Combat Journalist, MichaelYon-online.com, @Michael_Yon How are Chinese immigrants getting into the U.S? The importance of the Darién Gap in the immigration crisis

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,  America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, @BensmanTodd How bad is the southern border crisis? The impact of Title 42 ending in the near future Where are immigrants getting into the United States coming from? An under-reported story of terrorists bringing informants across the border GREG SCARLATOIU, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Why does the U.S. have 20,000 troops stationed in South Korea? Assessing the nuclear arsenal of North Korea CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, Nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer, Former federally appointed Director, Canadian Race Relations Foundation, Former Appointee, Office of Religious Freedom in Foreign Affairs, Author, “The Challenge of Modernizing Islam” Increased tensions towards Israel from its Middle Eastern neighbors The connection between Hezbollah and Lebanon What is the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation?

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,  America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration, @BensmanTodd A preview of Bensman's new book, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History How is the Biden administration handling the border crisis? Does the administration do full background checks on everyone who crosses the border? CLEO PASKAL, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Recent talks between the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Taiwan How the Belt and Road Initiative is expanding China's repression around the world DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy's Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander An update on Judicial Reform taking place in Israel The great strength of the Israeli 'legal structure' compared to elected officials

PETE HOEKSTRA, Advisory Board Chairman, Center for Security Policy GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” @BensmanTodd:

America's border crisis continues to be a huge issue, particularly at the southern border and as it pertains to national security. About 2.4 million encounters have taken place at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022. In October it was almost 200,000 more and there appears to be no end in sight. --We're in a very dangerous time, even as it pertains to the -lame duck- session where there's great desperation to get something through, not only on a continuing resolution basis, but also an attempt to pass, without hearing or without debate, what's being called -The Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022.- -HR3648---Appearing on Crosstalk to address several aspects of the border debate was Todd Bensman. Todd is senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. He's the author of Overrun- How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History and America's Covert Border War- The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. He formerly worked at the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, where he managed teams of intelligence analysts that worked in concert with federal homeland security and U.S. Intelligence Community agencies to identify and mitigate terrorism threats.--Todd began by describing how the Biden administration has discreetly begun a program along the border where both the Mexicans and Americans collaborate on legalizing immigrants before they cross into the U.S. This is done between the two governments via what's known as -CBP-1.- This is an online, secure, DHS platform.

America's border crisis continues to be a huge issue, particularly at the southern border and as it pertains to national security. About 2.4 million encounters have taken place at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022. In October it was almost 200,000 more and there appears to be no end in sight. --We're in a very dangerous time, even as it pertains to the -lame duck- session where there's great desperation to get something through, not only on a continuing resolution basis, but also an attempt to pass, without hearing or without debate, what's being called -The Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022.- -HR3648---Appearing on Crosstalk to address several aspects of the border debate was Todd Bensman. Todd is senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. He's the author of Overrun- How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History and America's Covert Border War- The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. He formerly worked at the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, where he managed teams of intelligence analysts that worked in concert with federal homeland security and U.S. Intelligence Community agencies to identify and mitigate terrorism threats.--Todd began by describing how the Biden administration has discreetly begun a program along the border where both the Mexicans and Americans collaborate on legalizing immigrants before they cross into the U.S. This is done between the two governments via what's known as -CBP-1.- This is an online, secure, DHS platform.

America's border crisis continues to be a huge issue, particularly at the southern border and as it pertains to national security. About 2.4 million encounters have taken place at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022. In October it was almost 200,000 more and there appears to be no end in sight. --We're in a very dangerous time, even as it pertains to the -lame duck- session where there's great desperation to get something through, not only on a continuing resolution basis, but also an attempt to pass, without hearing or without debate, what's being called -The Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022.- -HR3648---Appearing on Crosstalk to address several aspects of the border debate was Todd Bensman. Todd is senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. He's the author of Overrun- How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History and America's Covert Border War- The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. He formerly worked at the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, where he managed teams of intelligence analysts that worked in concert with federal homeland security and U.S. Intelligence Community agencies to identify and mitigate terrorism threats.--Todd began by describing how the Biden administration has discreetly begun a program along the border where both the Mexicans and Americans collaborate on legalizing immigrants before they cross into the U.S. This is done between the two governments via what's known as -CBP-1.- This is an online, secure, DHS platform.

America's border crisis continues to be a huge issue, particularly at the southern border and as it pertains to national security. About 2.4 million encounters have taken place at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022. In October it was almost 200,000 more and there appears to be no end in sight. --We're in a very dangerous time, even as it pertains to the -lame duck- session where there's great desperation to get something through, not only on a continuing resolution basis, but also an attempt to pass, without hearing or without debate, what's being called -The Equal Access to Green Cards for Legal Employment Act of 2022.- -HR3648---Appearing on Crosstalk to address several aspects of the border debate was Todd Bensman. Todd is senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. He's the author of Overrun- How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History and America's Covert Border War- The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. He formerly worked at the Texas Department of Public Safety's Intelligence and Counterterrorism Division, where he managed teams of intelligence analysts that worked in concert with federal homeland security and U.S. Intelligence Community agencies to identify and mitigate terrorism threats.--Todd began by describing how the Biden administration has discreetly begun a program along the border where both the Mexicans and Americans collaborate on legalizing immigrants before they cross into the U.S. This is done between the two governments via what's known as -CBP-1.- This is an online, secure, DHS platform.

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang The current relationship between Russia and China An increased buildup of Chinese nuclear weapons TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” @BensmanTodd: A positive development with respect to the U.S. southern border A terrorist plot involving ISIS and the southern border KEVIN FREEMAN, Host, Economic War Room, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy, Author, “Game Plan: How to Protect Yourself from the Coming Cyber-Economic Attack” and “Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the U.S. Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again,” Founder, Globaleconomiwarfare.com, @SecretWeaponUSA: The Federal Reserve's recent raise in interest rates What is "hyper inflation"?

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang The advisability of U.S. pension funds going into Chinese stocks China's doctrine of 'Civil Military Fusion' TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” @BensmanTodd: An update on the U.S. southern border The current state of Title 42, and implications if it is ended  BILL WALTON, Chairman, Resolute Protector Foundation, Host, The Bill Walton Show, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute's Center on Wealth, Poverty and Morality, @billwaltonshow: The WHO's impact on U.S. citizens The CCP's influence over the World Health Organization

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Author, “Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech,” @jihadwatchRS Robert Spencer: “On a fairly regular basis, there are Jihad plots in the United States” Robert Spencer talks about the recent investigation into the U.S. Secret Service TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” @BensmanTodd Todd Bensman: “The U.S. Asylum process is the key to mass migration events” JAMES CARAFANO, Vice President for Foreign & Security Policy, The Heritage Foundation, @JJCarafano Why does the U.S. military's budget proposal not account for inflation? Why does the U.S. military still have contact with the People's Liberation Army?

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” @BensmanTodd: An update on the United States' southern border How is the Biden administration handling the influx of migrants into the U.S.? The Biden administration's impact on ICE DR. HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, Former Turkish Desk Officer at the US Department of Defense, Author of Modern Islamic Warfare: An Ancient Doctrine Marches On (2017): The possibility of the Iran Nuclear Deal coming back to life What do the Iranians think of President Biden? A history of the United States' relationship with Iran

The Biden administration struck a deal with the Mexican government to delay the migrant caravans heading into the United States, yet by maintaining the allure of special benefits for people if they can reach the U.S. border, the incentive created a new crisis in Mexico. To get around this, the Mexican government launched an operation to quietly flood America's border, in what locals call a human smuggling “Ant Operation.” To learn more about this, we sat down for an interview with Todd Bensman, author of “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration” and senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies. ⭕️ Stay up-to-date with Josh with the Crossroads NEWSLETTER

This week Ed and Lee had the opportunity to talk with Todd Bensman, a National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.  Todd has extensive experience studying the situation at the southern border.  He is the author of America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.  He has also recently written about UN-funded efforts in Mexico to assist migrants in recovering "repressed memories" which they can use to make asylum claims.Click here to purchase America's Covert Border War.Follow Todd:Twitter: @BensmanToddGettr:  @tbensmanBlog:  https://cis.org/BensmanYou can reach us here at the podcast by email at Comments@LetsThinkPodcast.com or follow on social media:Twitter: @LetsThinkPodca2Gettr:  @LetsThinkPodParler: @letsThinkPod

ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly Columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," and "Islamophobia and the Threat to Free Speech," @jihadwatchRS  Iran: ‘Hard Revenge' for Soleimani Killing Will Come From ‘Within' the U.S. Spencer talks about Britain's Sharia Courts and how these institutions, in recent years, have circumvented British law TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Todd Bensman talks about a Yemeni migrant that evaded Mexican immigration officials and his purported dubious intensions Bensman talks about efforts underway in Texas to safeguard American border security HANS VON SPAKOVSKY, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow, Messe Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation, Co-Author, "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk," and "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk" @HvonSpakovsky Hans von Spakovsky talks about how the Biden administration's voting agenda is linked to its immigration directives: “For 20 years now, the Progressive Left has been trying to extinguish the line between aliens and citizens” Von Spakovsky talks about the pitfalls within the voter ID discourse: According to U.S. census bureau, in the last three federal elections…a higher percentage of citizens turned out to vote in Georgia than New York” 

 AMB. HANK COOPER, Chairman, High Frontier, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization Frank Gaffney: The essential goal of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was to leave our country defenseless Amb. Henry Cooper talks about the early founding of the Strategic Defense Initiative and the American Lefts' fear about “an arms race in space” RICK FISHER, Senior Fellow of Asian Military Affairs, International Assessment and Strategy Center, Author, "China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach," former Asian Studies Director, The Heritage Foundation, former China Brief Editor, The Jamestown Foundation Rick Fisher: As early as 2017, the Chinese began to display containerized missiles Fisher: A Chinese 30 ton space launch, solid fuel vehicle can serve as an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of around 8,000-10,000 km range TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Todd Bensman talks about the ongoing migration crisis throughout the Darien Gap Bensman delves into the Biden administration's decision to reinstate the Trump "remain in Mexico" policy

GORDON CHANG, Contributor, Gatestone Institute, Newsweek, Author, “The Coming Collapse of China,” “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes the World, “Losing South Korea,” and “The Great US-China Tech War,” @Gordongchang Gordon Chang talks about Chinese influence operations throughout Africa Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act: Encourages the State Department to start negotiations between North and South Korea to have both parties formally sign a peace treaty TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Fox News David Horowitz Freedom Center, Author, "The Enemy Withing," and “I Can't Breath: How A Racial Hoax is Killing America” @horowitz39 David Horowitz: We are back in the Cold War where our Democratic Party is aligning with our enemies Were George Floyd's and Breonna Taylor's murders racially motivated?

Back in April 2021, Todd Bensman talked with me about the nexus between immigration and national security in his book America's Covert Border War: the Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.  Todd is an award-winning journalist who transitioned to a career as a national security intelligence professional for the Texas Department of Public Safety and then returned to writing and publishing. We talk about the threat of muslim extremists crossing and the varied and circuitous international routes they may take - how some, like some Haitians now, can cross from Panama through the storied Darien Gap and across Mexico to seek asylum after crossing into the U.S.  Todd currently serves as the Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington, D.C. immigration policy institute. While we talk around the politics of the border,  his book is a story of the ambitious and intrigue-laden covert American counterterrorism programs built after 9/11 from the U.S. border to the tip of South America.  Todd raises the question: have we become a victim of our own counterterrorism success?Recorded earlier this year, on April 16th, 2021More on the author and recent articles can be found at:ToddBensman.com Todd Bensmen - Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)Twitter @BensmanToddAbid Ali Khan Indicted and Sanctionedhttps://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pakistani-national-indicted-and-sanctioned-human-smuggling-conspiracy**Edited by Pete TurnerI hope you've enjoyed listening to this episode. I could use your help to make more...I like to keep the track clean of ads, and sales pitches. As such, meeting costs and finding time to produce this podcast is a challenge, so any support is appreciated. If you would like to help make Season Three operational, please consider a one time donation of any amount right here ---> https://www.paypal.me/thelivedropOr alternatively,  join The Live Drop Patreon community for exclusive commentary and content starting with a $5 monthly donation ---> https://www.patreon.com/thelivedropAs always, please rate and review the show on iTunes. Your input is appreciated. Thank you for listening and your support,Mark ValleyCreator/Hostthelivedrop.com Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this hour, we focus on the current state of the border. Guest Todd Bensman joins us to discuss his experience on the border and the situation our Border Agents are going through.  Todd Bensman is the author of the new book America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration (Posthill Press/Bombardier Books, February 23, 2021). He currently serves as the Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington, D.C. policy institute for which he writes, speaks, and grants media interviews about the nexus between immigration and national security. He frequently reports from the southern border, in Mexico and in Latin America. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Todd Bensman, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and author of “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss President Joe Biden’s Southern border crisis and why Haitians […]

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Todd Bensman, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and author of “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration,” joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss President Joe Biden’s Southern border crisis and why Haitians flocked to Del Rio, Texas.

COL (RET) JOHN MILLS, Former Director, Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense Col. John Mills: The Bush administration's number one priority in Afghanistan was to “deny sanctuary” - “We just did an about-face” and gave sanctuary to global jihad extremists Col. Mills talks about General Milley's, Austin's and McKenzie's testimonies before the U.S. Congress TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, Former Department of Homeland Security Official, Author, "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Todd Bensman: It was really obvious that there was going to be a mass migration surge to the U.S. because of the rhetoric used by then-Presidential candidate Joe Biden on the 2020 campaign trail Bensman: “…about 1.7 to 1.8 million people would have been encountered in some fashion or form at the U.S. southern border in one single fiscal year…50,000 a week” International migrants, i.e. those not from Central America, make up around 27% of all Customs and Border Patrol monthly apprehension statistics Why did the Mexican government begin deporting Haitians to Haiti themselves? BOB CARLSTROM, Former Senior Executive, Reagan White House Office of Management and Budget, President, AMAC Action, @MatureAmericans Bob Carlstrom talks about the progression of the radical left's plan to transform America: Black Lives Matter demonstrations, defund the police, going after the 2nd amendment, cancel culture and critical race theory Carlstrom talks about the Left's “Unholy Trinity” and useful idiots Carlstrom: The erosion of the U.S. dollar coupled with excessive government spending is “absolutely ludicrous”

Jim began by noting how it's been amazing to see the collapse of our nation's border security in less than 8 months. Individuals from all over the world are entering the U.S. through our southwest border. As that happens, it's not criminal aliens who are being vilified, but instead it's our own border agents who are coming under great scrutiny, even from President Biden.--Todd Bensman has recently been at the border and he joined Jim to report on this matter absent the politically correct filters of the mainstream media. He's senior national security fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. He is also the author of America's Covert Border War- The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.

Jim began by noting how it's been amazing to see the collapse of our nation's border security in less than 8 months. Individuals from all over the world are entering the U.S. through our southwest border. As that happens, it's not criminal aliens who are being vilified, but instead it's our own border agents who are coming under great scrutiny, even from President Biden.--Todd Bensman has recently been at the border and he joined Jim to report on this matter absent the politically correct filters of the mainstream media. He's senior national security fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. He is also the author of America's Covert Border War- The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.

AMB. PETE HOEKSTRA, former Congressman (1993-2011), Michigan's 2nd Congressional District, former US Ambassador to the Netherlands (2017-2021), Fellow, Center for Security Policy, @Petehoekstra Pete Hoekstra: This is the same administration that embraced the radical jihadists in Libya and many others during the Arab Spring and thereafter Hoekstra: While John Kerry was trying to convince the Chinese that they should join the fight against climate change, the Chinese leadership was meeting with the Taliban - “They don't respect us” According to sources, Hoekstra alleged that Gen. Milley conveyed to his Chinese counterparts that the U.S. would not attack the People's Republic should it invade Taiwan Hoekstra: climate change is being used by the Left to reimagine our economies Will NATO partners undercut military commitments in favor of pursuing climate change initiatives instead? TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author, "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Todd Bensman talks about the recent inflow of Haitian migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border: None of these Haitians are fleeing earthquakes or presidential assassination…Most of the country is under this false impression that they're here [the U.S.-Mexico border] fleeing terrible stuff in Haiti. Almost everyone of these Haitians have been living for years in Chile and Brazil…no problem for years in those countries” Bensman: When they [the Haitians] saw Biden had opened the border, they all figured, ‘it's a good time to upgrade'” On Sept. 12, the Mexican government suddenly opened the flood gates to the Mexican border - effectively “stabbing Joe Biden in the back” What will happen to the Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas? Bensman argues that during the Trump administration, migrants were deterred from immediately migrating to the U.S. because of the U.S. government's “Remain in Mexico” policy 

JOHN ROSSOMANDO, Senior Analyst of Defense Policy, Center for Security Policy, Former Senior Analyst, Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism, Former Senior Managing Editor, The Bulletin, @JohnRossomando John Rossomando talks about the 20th anniversary of Ahmad Shah Masood's assassination Rossomando: The Biden Administration lied about striking a supposed car bomb in Kabul Will Afghanistan become another hotbed for terrorism?  SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis Sam Faddis: No question at all that the Pakistani's remain “lashed up” with the Taliban Faddis talks about the ongoing genocide against resistance fighters in the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan Faddis talks about the findings of some virologists: We have never seen a naturally occurring virus that is built this way [COVID-19] TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Todd Bensman: After 9/11, U.S. government officials shored up America's immigration system to prevent foreign nations with dubious intentions from entering the U.S. with visas by instituting extensive national security vetting The eye-bulging case of Naif Abdulaziz Alfallaj What happens to those migrants charged with terrorism? Bensman: The problem is that national security vetting has become a partisan issue

TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Todd Bensman: As many as 60,000 “got-aways” entered the U.S. from June 2021 Bensman: Migrants are being sent to all corners of the country Biden's drain on the public treasury persists as construction on the border wall continues to stall DAVID WURMSER, Director, Center for Security Policy's Program on Global Anti-Semitism, former Middle East Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney, retired, US Navy Reserves Lieutenant Commander David Wurmser talks about Iran's ongoing, government-caused, drought and its implications for the country's stability Wurmser: Over the last year, we have seen nothing in terms of real reforms in Lebanon - which the Iranians continue to raid REGGIE LITTLEJOHN, Founder and President, Women's Rights Without Frontiers, @reggielittlejhn Reggie Littlejohn talks about the prospect of a Chinese-style vaccine passport being used in the West Littlejohn: It is not fair to the athletes to have them choose between their conscious and their athletic ambitions

JAMES JAY CARAFANO, Vice President, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy, The Heritage Foundation, Author, "Brutal War," @JJCarafano Civil-Military affairs within the U.S. Armed Services have taken a turn for the worst Under the Biden administration, the Military's budget does not account for inflation James Carafano: China still wants to win without fighting Marxism: This is a power ideology that was not put in place to improve people's lives JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director, Center for a Secure Free Society, former Director of Institute Relations, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, US Marine Corps (retired), @jmhumire Joseph Humire: Cuba is a lynchpin for all of the bad actors throughout Latin America The middle to upper class will most likely leave Peru in short order following the election of Marxist Pedro Castillo Humire: Peru might be the fourth largest mass migration in the region Who is prokoving violence in the Columbia protests?  TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd The June 2021 U.S. Customs and Border Patrol numbers are out: 190,000 reported encounters at the U.S. border last month Todd Bensman: The Biden Administration is contemplating lifting Title 42 - What are it's implications Bensman: Very high potential for an emigration out of Peru

PETER HUESSY, Director of Strategic Deterrence Studies, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies Admiral Charles Richard: The Chinese are going to at least double their nuclear weapons in the next decade Huessy: The Chinese could have twice as many warheads on alert than the U.S. has in its arsenal Huessy: The arms control push for Global Zero misses the idea of strategic stability TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd U.S. Customs and Border Patrol apprehensions in May 2021 were the highest in 20 years Todd Bensman: The U.S. is one of the most accommodating countries for illegal immigration - “Catch and Bus” What is the future of Peru? ROBERT CHARLES, Former Assistant Secretary, State at the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in the Bush Administration, Author, "Eagles and Evergreens," @RCharles4USA Robert Charles: Should news of the Cuban protests make it to China's more isolated provinces, the Chinese Communist Party could have an uprising on their hands Charles talks about his time working in Latin America and why the region's future matters more today than ever before Charles: For the first time since 2003, the Western Pacific is naked Charles: There is not a single city that shrunk its police budget last year that hasn't witnessed a spike in crime

STEVEN CURTIS, Former Official and Consultant, U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, FEMA and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, retired, U.S. Army and Nevada National Guard, Consultant, Readiness Resource Group, Inc Pilot Nuclear Program: Converting spent nuclear fuel into energy - How it's possible and why more people should know about it What barriers are preventing this alternative source of energy from taking off? Steven Curtis: No one in the U.S. has died from nuclear power, while around 40,000 people die per year from cars Wastetoenergynow.org TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Texas is using its own resources and personnel to secure the U.S.-Mexico border while many Department of Homeland Security officials are being put on "babysitting duty" by the Biden administration Todd Bensman delves into Operation Lone Star Bensman: We are witnessing a suspension of the predator vs. prey dynamic along the U.S. southern border

CHRIS FARRELL, Director, Investigations and Research, Judicial Watch, @JudicialWatch Judicial Watch Files Two New Federal FOIA Lawsuits for Information on COVID and Wuhan Institute of Virology How is Anthony Fauci connected to the Wuhan Institute of Virology? Chris Farrell talks about critical race theory within the U.S. military ROBERT SPENCER, Director, Jihad Watch, Weekly columnist, PJ Media and FrontPage Magazine, Author, "Mass Migration in Europe: A Model for the U.S.?," @jihadwatchRS Is Sharia compatible with the West? Brooklyn Film Festival premieres documentary about NJ mayor who ‘fights the forces of Islamophobia' TODD BENSMAN, Senior National Security Fellow, Center for Immigration Studies, former Department of Homeland Security official, Author,  "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration," @BensmanTodd Why did the Department of Homeland Security quickly withdraw a press release about two Yemenis nationals who were on the FBI's terrorism watchlist and apprehended at U.S. border? Is Texas resuming construction of the border wall?

Senior National Security Fellow, Todd Bensman, talks with Pat Miller about the response from Texas to the border crisis and how their state law enforcement is assisting an overwhelmed border patrol. "America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of Nations's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Host Ruben Navarrette interviews his friend, Todd Bensman -- an ex-journalist and now senior fellow at the Washington DC-based anti-immigrant group The Center for Immigration Studies -- about the refugee border crisis and his new book on how Islamic radicals infiltrate the U.S.-Mexico border. Guest: Todd Bensman, Author of “America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration” and Texas-based Senior Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.

What You Need to Know is elections have consequences! The Biden Administration has dismantled a large commission in the State Department that focused on religious freedom worldwide. President Biden calls himself a religious Catholic, but his actions don't square with it! Protecting religious freedom is fundamental. Across the globe, many religious groups are persecuted — Christians most targeted of all. We NEED people and groups who focus on religious freedom around the world. The reality of elections is that when a change of parties takes place in the White House, we see big changes like this. Removing this commission is a detriment for religious groups everywhere! John Schlafly, lawyer, editor, and financial officer for the Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, shares the latest Schlafly Report column — Major League Baseball Strikes Out. Also, John explains the immigration crisis and how the Biden administration is causing this.  Todd Bensman, author, and reporter, shares his recent article Catch-and-Bus: Thousands of Freed Border-Crossing Immigrants Are Dispersing Across America. Todd explains the danger of all these immigrants coming over because there are some on Terrorist Watch lists and No-Fly lists. Make sure to get your own copy of his new book — America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.  Wrap Up: Major League Baseball is woke and gives Colorado the All-Star game to help vulnerable US Senator Bennett. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What You Need to Know is beware of the vaccine bullies! Science is good and there are good vaccines out there. However, we have a lot of vaccines in America and now babies are getting dozens of shots in the first few weeks after birth. The COVID vaccine seems to be effective, but the browbeating from the government to take the vaccine has raised major concerns from two big groups — conservatives and African-Americans. These two groups don't believe the government is trustworthy and it shouldn't be able to force people to vaccinate their children or themselves. The vaccine bullies are not sparing anyone!  Robert M. Couch, former government attorney, and author, shares his new book Uncle Brice— a Killing, a Trial, a True Story. Robert explains the connection between his Uncle Brice case and the Floyd/Chauvin case. Both were tragic events but Robert explains the importance of a fair and thorough trial. Get your own copy of the book here. Todd Bensman, author, and reporter, shares his recent article Catch-and-Bus: Thousands of Freed Border-Crossing Immigrants Are Dispersing Across America. Todd explains the danger of all these immigrants coming over because there are some on Terrorist Watch lists and No-Fly lists. Make sure to get your own copy of his new book — America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.  Wrap Up: History makes clear that after a major traumatic event like a pandemic, or world war there will be a sort of cultural social reaction. Let's steer our cultural reaction in a more edifying way! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What You Need to Know is the Narrative Machine isn't going to stop! Trump is speaking at CPAC next week but the question is, will anyone be able to hear him? Last week, Trump gave an interview on Newsmax and YouTube took it down saying that it “violated YouTube's terms of service.” The Narrative Machine is pushing the untrue story that Trump incited violence on Jan. 6th and now they are now censoring him. You can post YouTube videos stating crazy theories and you won't get taken down. This is clearly a double standard. We have to get ourselves lined up with the facts to fight for what really happened on November 3rd and January 6th because the Narrative Machine isn't going to stop anytime soon! Todd Bensman, author and reporter, talks about A New Migrant Caravan Is Forming – And Biden Hopes to Crush It Without Leaving His Fingerprints. He explains what's going on at the Mexican border now that President Biden is in office. Be sure to get a copy of his new book — America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration.  Scottie Nell Hughes, journalist, author, and anchor of RT America's weeknight newscasts, shares some great stories about Rush Limbaugh. Scottie gives her opinion on what will happen with the media now that Rush is gone.  Wrap up: China and the world. There's an incredible number of schools being purchased in England by Chinese firms. The person who has the money has the influence on schools. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.