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Todd Bensman
@BensmanTodd
Senior Advisor- Trump Administration DHS leadership; Author of Overrun book; Fmr CT intel manager, recovering reporter 20 yrs
Austin, TX
Joined August 2018
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    the reason Haitian migrants discard their Chilean and Brazilian ID cards over here on the Mex side is to obscure from asylum reviewers that they were already safely and prosperously situated for years and years before coming for the American upgrade
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    Proud to announce I've just sworn the oath of office as "Senior Advisor to the Border Czar," Tom Homan at the White House. See my "Exit Interview" on the Center for Immigration Studies podcast:
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    Chilean ID cards discarded along the Acuna side of the river show what look like Haitian bearers. I found these myself and arranged them like this on a smuggler trail
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    The “Mother of All Caravans” now forming in Honduras, estimated to reach 20,000. Only foreign press covering. This is different than the 2,500 one I’ve been tweeting about lately. mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mother-of…
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    You can see Mexican immigration leading this group to the river today as part of their secret WhatsApp coordination with Biden’s DHS as I reported ⁦@CIS_org⁩ yesterday, but texas screwed this up by having a national guard tactical team block them on the bank.Vid by @jwbr77
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    Texas DPS blocking migrants from entering - rare footage
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    Don’t let Biden people get away with pointing to lower border “apprehensions” stats. They’re just shifting them all to ports like this one at Matamoros-Brownsville, where hundreds an hour are now entering on unvetted humanitarian permits given out on the CBP-One cell app
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    Quite literally a Mexican standoff here in Matamoros looking across at Brownsville. ⁦@GregAbbott_TX⁩ national guard and DPS will not let them pass.
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    Matamoros Mexico, where everyone heartfeltedly believes ⁦@SecMayorkas⁩ many public assurances that “the border is closed” And “the border is secure”
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    It has begun - Bensman from Matamoros Mexico. All morning long. I’d say several thousand have crossed and the day is young
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    “The Haitians ripped away every window sunshade, bent luggage compartment doors, tore up seat cushions, destroyed anything destroyable as pilots cowered behind locked cabin doors, the beginning of a rampage of hijackings, attacks on ICE agents and mutiny.”
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    This US-bound Haitian in Tapachula, Mexico complains that the UN failed to make its January payment to him and now his UN debit card is empty…
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    What Biden’s new catch-and-release policy has wrought in La Féria, Texas this morning. The predicted “Biden Effect” migrant crisis has begun.
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    Meanwhile…60 miles upstream from Eagle Pass where all the media went, virtually forgotten in Del Rio, Texas, ⁦Gov. Greg Abbott’s “Trump Wall” is still going up. Here yesterday 20 panels just up to make about 7 miles of ⁦@GregAbbott_TX⁩ wall so far.
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