Todd Bensman on Muslim Migrants on the U.S. Terror List Infiltrating the Southern U.S. Border
by Marilyn Stern
Middle East Forum Webinar
March 20, 2023
Todd Bensman is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, the 2023 follow-up to his earlier book, America's Covert Border War: The Untold Story of the Nation's Battle to Prevent Jihadist Infiltration. Bensman spoke to a March 20th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) about the escalating threat to America by Muslim migrants on the U.S. terror watch list infiltrating from the southern border. The following is a summary of his comments:
Liberals say the threat is exaggerated, while Republicans insist it is dire and widespread. But "the truth is really that there is a threat issue that has been addressed by the U.S. government and the Homeland Security enterprise" since 9/11. The fact that the Biden administration decided in April 2022 to post "known or suspected terrorist crossings" (KST) on its enforcement statistics website indicates that the threat of terrorist infiltration isn't exaggerated. The Customs and Border Patrol website (CPB.gov), which contains approximately five years' worth of statistics, posted ninety-eight apprehensions of "terrorist crossings at the southern border" in fiscal year 2022. So far, the count for the first four months of fiscal year 2023 is sixty-nine, "so we are on track to beat 2022's number in terms of terror watch listed migrants that are entering the country that are being apprehended."
https://www.meforum.org/64273/todd-bensman-on-muslim-migrants-on-the-us-terror
