by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 15, 2025 | National, News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, supports a bill sponsored by U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14), which would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report how many special interest...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 17, 2025 | National, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, World
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, recently returned from touring the U.S.-Mexico border last week where he said President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have had a “magical effect” when it comes to the dramatic...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 4, 2025 | National, News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariffs expected to be imposed on Mexico at midnight tonight may be a tool the president is using to attract businesses to set up shop in...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 4, 2025 | National, News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the greatest mass migration border crisis in U.S. history ended in a matter of hours under President Donald Trump’s executive powers implementing simple “deportation,...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 18, 2025 | National, News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the shackling of migrants for deportation flights is a necessary safety measure to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and pilots. Bensman pointed to...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 4, 2025 | Economy, National, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said President Donald Trump’s 25 percent tariff threat on Mexican imports was a “highly effective” strategy that should have been implemented by prior administrations “for years” as...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 28, 2025 | National, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, World
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said Colombia’s compliance to accept U.S. deportation flights returning Colombian nationals back to the South American country when faced with tariffs and sanctions sets the tone...
by Michael Patrick Leahy | Mar 17, 2024 | National, News, Policy, Politics, port, Tennessee, TN LEAD, World
Todd Bensman, senior fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, told Stephen K. Bannon on Saturday’s edition of WarRoom that the Biden Administration helped cause the current chaos in Haiti by scuttling free and fair elections in that Caribbean nation back in...
