Todd Bensman Surveys the Southern Border and the Convoluted Path of Human Trafficking
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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, 2021
More on the author and recent articles can be found at:
ToddBensman.com
Todd Bensmen - Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
Twitter @BensmanTodd
Abid Ali Khan Indicted and Sanctioned
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/pakistani-national-indicted-and-sanctioned-human-smuggling-conspiracy
**Edited by Pete Turner
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He makes some good points about the impact of Biden's halting of Trump's border policies. Yet conveniently leaves out what the point of this was; that these policies were so unnecessarily cruel, ineffective and once again destructive to our international relationship. It is just such a bad idea to alienate Latin America. We need them for, among other reasons, at least kind of stopping smugglers (drugs, weapons, humans) and terrorists. But the part that was REALLY moronic was how much he whined about the media not reporting when terrorists are caught at the border. Just Google any of the examples he gives and you'll see this is absolute nonsense! Take his last example about the two Yemeni men caught in California. He claims NOBODY reported on it. Literally 5 seconds of searching determined that to be false. Here's a link to an article by one of the largest news agencies on the planet: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-border-security-idUSKBN2BS1XO