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November 18, 2024

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Whatā€™s driving the mass migrant shiftā€”and how will Trumpā€™s return shape the border crisis? Todd Bensman joins to discuss firsthand insights from deep southern Mexico and what migrants themselves are saying about the next presidency.Ā  Are we ready for the battleground ahead? šŸšØ

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Todd Bensmens

Todd Bensman is an editorialist, media commentator, and investigative author of the 2023 book OVERRUN, How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. HistoryĀ (Posthill Press/Bombardier Books) and alsoĀ Americaā€™s Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nationā€™s Battle to Prevent Jihadist InfiltrationĀ (Posthill Press/Bombardier Books, February 2021). 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 StudiesĀ (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, Central America, and South America. He hasĀ testified before CongressĀ as an expert witness and regularly appears on radio and television outlets to discuss illegal immigration and border security matters.

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