From Asylum Fraud to Mexican Ant Operations: Todd Bensman on Biden’s Migrant Advocacy Industrial Complex
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
“We are in the midst of the greatest border crisis in U.S. history, by every metric,” says Todd Bensman. “When Title 42 goes away, this will spur 18,000 a day crossing. We’re at about 7,500 a day now.”
Todd Bensman is an award-winning field journalist and a national security fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies. He’s the author of “America’s Covert Border War” and the forthcoming book “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History.”
“A school district in Texas … has been overwhelmed with 50,000 to 75,000 illegal immigrant families that have absolutely swamped the school district,” says Bensman.
We speak about current abuses of U.S. asylum law, Mexican ant operations, the migrant terror threat, and what Bensman calls the “migrant advocacy industrial complex.”
“Mayorkas is telling us all along: We are going to create legal pathways to cross the southern border. That’s unprecedented,” says Bensman.
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| 0:00.0 | We are in the midst of the greatest border crisis |
| 0:03.6 | at US history. |
| 0:04.7 | By every metric, when Title 42 goes away, |
| 0:07.7 | this will spur 18,000 a day crossing. |
| 0:12.0 | We're at about 7,500 a day now. |
| 0:15.4 | Todd Endsman is an award-winning field journalist |
| 0:18.2 | and a national security fellow |
| 0:19.8 | with the Center for Immigration Studies. |
| 0:22.1 | He's the author of America's covert border war |
| 0:25.3 | and the forthcoming book Over Run, |
| 0:27.4 | how Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis |
| 0:30.2 | in US history. |
| 0:31.3 | A school district in Texas that has been overwhelmed |
| 0:35.5 | with 50 to 75,000 illegal immigrant families |
| 0:40.5 | that have absolutely swamped the school district. |
| 0:44.0 | We speak about current abuses of US asylum law, |
| 0:46.9 | Mexican anti-operations, the migrant terror threat, |
| 0:49.9 | and what Endsman calls the migrant advocacy |
| 0:52.6 | industrial complex. |
| 0:54.1 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kellek. |
| 0:57.7 | Todd Endsman, it's such a pleasure |
| 1:00.5 | to have you on American Thought Leaders. |
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