Todd Bensman

Not so long ago, political opponents of 45th President Donald Trump deliberately misnamed one of his signature immigration policies the “Muslim Ban” and cast it as the poster child for all that that was racist, intolerant, and immoral about that presidency. So terrible did Democrats regard the travel restrictions list — which sharply curtailed issuance […]

Last month, an identifiably Jewish Chicago man was shot while walking to synagogue on the Sabbath. While attacks against American Jews have generally been prosecuted as “assaults” or “hate crimes,” this time the assailant was charged with “terrorism.” A native of Mauritania, he had been “encountered by US Border Patrol at the California border in […]

In the early morning hours of May 3, a Jordanian immigrant who illegally crossed the US-Mexico border a month earlier joined with another illegally present Jordanian. Together they drove a large box truck to the entry gates of Quantico Marine Corps Base in northern Virginia. The driver announced they were Amazon subcontractors there to make […]