Parsing Immigration Policy Podcast
U.S.-Mexico Border Transformed Under Trump’s Policies
Host: Mark Krikorian
Guests: Andrew R. Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law & Policy, CIS
Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow, CIS
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Commentary
Published in The Daily Wire:
Got-Away Traffic Drops Like a Rock at this Notorious Stretch of the Border
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: After scouting both the U.S. and Mexican sides of this wall and highway over four days, I found only trackless emptiness. I found no open cuts in the wall, and no halcones with binoculars standing along out in the desert. The sand was windblown rather than churned with the footprints of immigrant runners.
Published in New York Post:
It’s Absolutely Legal to Deport Hate-Monger Mahmoud Khalil
By George Fishman
Excerpt: Khalil is a guest in our country. Guests do not have a First Amendment "right" to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or incite genocide. They do have a “right” to the first plane out of here.
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Featured Posts
A Border ‘Peace Dividend’: Texas Shifts Some Police Forces Off the Rio Grande
By Todd Bensman
Excerpt: After four years and more than $11 billion spent battling the worst mass migration border crisis in U.S. history, Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star” has repositioned most state troopers and police personnel from a southern border riverfront that quickly fell quiet once President Donald Trump entered office and ended the crisis with new policies.
Trump Using Every Tool Available to Keep Immigration Promises
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: President Trump is using every shot in his executive-branch locker to keep his promises to secure the border and remove unauthorized aliens. Advocates and judges have started pushing back even as the White House keeps ramping up its efforts. Stay tuned as the irresistible force of nature meets the immovable objects in black robes.
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Eye-Popping February CBP Numbers Show How the Border Has Changed under Trump
By Andrew R. Arthur
Excerpt: CBP has released its Southwest border statistics for February, and they reveal how much the world has changed — or more precisely how much it has returned to normalcy following four years of upheaval and disruption under the Biden administration. That said, even by historical standards the numbers are eye-poppingly low, showing that the “Trump effect” is real.
Trump Deploys the Alien Enemies Act Against Venezuela and Tren De Aragua
By George Fishman
Excerpt: In January, I wrote that indications pointed to President Trump “seemingly … focus[ing] on using the AEA [Alien Enemies Act] to combat international cartels that have become entwined with ‘mafia states’”. I called this “a shrewd move, using the extremely powerful tool of the AEA where he is most likely to prevail at the Supreme Court, at least as an opening gambit”. Well, on March 15, President Trump pulled the trigger . . .
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Todd Bensman documents that Texas has shifted troopers and other state police personnel from its $11 billion "Operation Lone Star" off of the 1,254 miles of the Rio Grande River for the first time in four years.
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