Podcast
5/11: The End of Title 42
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guest: Todd Bensman, CIS Senior National Security Fellow
Parsing Immigration Policy, Episode 104
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Commentary
As Title 42 Ends, El Paso Residents Feel Abandoned by Biden
By Andrew R. Arthur
New York Post, May 11, 2023
Excerpt: The Biden administration prefers to call the situation at the southwest border a “challenge” instead of the crisis verging on total meltdown it is, but regardless, it’s a challenge the president is failing. The cartels and smugglers run the border now, and they have the Americans who call the area home living in fear.
There Is No Border Security Without E-Verify
By Mark Krikorian
Compact, May 11, 2023
Excerpt: If you aren’t for E-Verify, you aren’t serious about controlling immigration. Building a wall can only get you so far in controlling illegal immigration. The same goes for hiring Border Patrol agents, prosecuting border-jumpers, and tightening asylum rules. All these measures are important—but if illegal aliens are home-free once they get past the border, then walls, moats, and alligators won’t stop them from trying. And if enough keep trying, many will succeed. After all, the border with Mexico is nearly 2,000 miles long, and while Border Patrol agents do admirable work, they aren’t supermen.
I witnessed Biden officials helping people come into country illegally
By Todd Bensman
New York Post, May 10, 2023
Excerpt: When I checked into my hotel this week in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico, I was surprised to learn that many of my fellow guests had traveled more than 7,000 miles from their homes in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan. This is not your father’s illegal immigration.
Illegal immigration hurts the poor — even if Dems deny it
By Steven A. Camarota
New York Post, May 10, 2023
Excerpt: Those who insist we "need" immigrant workers are displaying a callous disregard for the poorest and least educated American workers.
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Blog Posts
Biden DHS Coordinating Illegal Immigration In-Flows with Mexico
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: The Americans ask the Mexicans to hold back the migrants – not because such crossings are illegal and should be blocked and obstructed, but only until the Americans had finished processing the last batch into the country through Brownsville. Once the Americans felt they could take in more, they message the Mexicans that “they are ready to receive them.”
What You Need to Know About the Biden Administration’s New Asylum Restrictions
By Elizabeth Jacobs
Excerpt: A regulation that limits asylum eligibility only for a relatively small portion of border-crossers will not be sufficient to close loopholes in the broken system.
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Todd Bensman is live at the border in Matamoros, Mexico at a massive migrant camp. He has been watching thousands of migrants flooding into the U.S. all day; they are not waiting for the end of Title 42. Mexican immigration officials on the ground are powerless to do anything.
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Todd Bensman, the Center’s senior national security fellow, joins agents in New Mexico for a nighttime search for illegal migrants and warns of the got-away trends.
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