Here's How Trump Can Fix the Border Crisis: Todd Bensman

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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Todd Bensman. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on November 15, 2024.

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Jan Jekielek interviews Todd Bensman, an expert on the border and counterterrorism and author of the book, “Overrun.” He’s a senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington policy institute.

According to Bensman, “Trump’s deportation plan is mostly conceptual… They will do much more interior deportation than we've seen in the last four years. They are putting the players in position right now: who will come up with the granular details of operations, the infrastructure that they're going to need, the money that it's going to cost, that all of those things are still sort of very much in the air… And I think it's safe to say that, especially in comparison with the Biden Harris administration's level of interior deportations, that there will be a very, very sharp increase in those deportations in the very near future.”

“Nobody really knows how many illegal immigrants are in the country. But I mean, there are some pretty consistent estimates that after this mass migration emergency of the last four years, there's probably 11 to 15 million that are here illegally or will soon be here illegally. Remember, there were different kinds of parole programs that they did. Those will all be canceled on the first day. They're temporary, so when the clock runs out on them, people will then maybe be in a position to be deported. So we don't really know it's a shifting, moving target, but let's just say many, many millions, it is a big, big task to try to move every one of them out.”

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:01 - First Terror Attack by Border Crossing Migrant
0:01:10 - Trump Administration's Deportation Plan
0:03:11 - Impact of Mexican Military Deployment
0:07:09 - Reduction in Border Crossings
0:10:02 - Missing Unaccompanied Minors
0:13:56 - Role of Tom Homan as Border Czar
0:16:39 - Immediate Actions Needed on Day One
0:18:34 - Challenges for Legitimate Asylum Seekers
0:19:23 - Legislative Fixes Needed
0:22:21 - Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Bensman about the deal Biden cut with Mexico about ten months ago: “The Biden administration went to Mexico about 10 months ago and cut a deal to have the Mexican military deploy to the northern border with us, round up 10s of 1000s of immigrants that were about to cross, and ship them all the way down 2000 miles south to the southern border of Mexico, and then hem them in behind a military blockade of road blocks, militarized roadblocks, and not allow anybody to progress. And if they did try to progress, to round them up again and send them back. Hence the name that Mexican Media gave this operation: ‘Carousel.’ So the numbers began to decline very sharply crossing the border once that deal was struck and the troops were out there around doing their roundups, and on the Mexican side, there are hundreds of 1000s down there bottled up and they were waiting for the outcome of this election.”

About letting unaccompanied minors into the country without making sure they ended up in safe places: “Early on in the administration, they made public pronouncements that they would turn back no unaccompanied minors. And the whole world heard that, and they sent forth, you know, hundreds of 1000s of unaccompanied minors to take advantage of what they heard. And they were correct. They turned nobody back. They took in all these unaccompanied minors, either their parents back in the village were sending them, or somebody in the United States sent for them. It was an unprecedented opportunity for them. Nobody had ever said we're going to let in all unaccompanied minors explicitly like that. So they came in so fast and furiously that the government was simply unable to process them all. And so they put in place systems where they could move them through fast, fast enough, faster and fast enough to make up for the new ones coming in. And those were foster care systems where they would name, they would find somebody willing to take the kids from from government facilities and take care of them and but the thing came together so fast that they didn't come up with a process to track them afterwards, to make sure that they weren't coming to some kind of harm in their new homes. You know, home visits, calling up, checking, requiring some kind of reporting medical records, you know, some some kind of checkups.”

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