What Should Trump Do About the Border on Day 1?—Todd Bensman
American Thought Leaders
Jan Jekielek
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🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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We’re launching a special American Thought Leaders series during this post-election transition period where I will be interviewing topic matter experts and former and potential future Trump administration officials to understand what the incoming American administration’s policies in 2025 may look like—for America, Canada, and the world.
In this episode, I’m sitting down with 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.
Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
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| 0:00.0 | We just had a couple of weeks ago our first terror attack by a border crossing migrant in Chicago, this one, |
| 0:09.0 | where a Mauritanian who crossed in March of 2023 in San Diego from Mauritania, West Africa, the Sahel Desert, |
| 0:18.0 | that's a country of terrorism concern, sought out and shot a Jewish man, |
| 0:22.9 | wounded him pretty grievously, and then when the police came, he opened fire on them, |
| 0:27.9 | and there was a big furious gun battle. |
| 0:32.1 | We're launching a special American Thought Leaders series during this post-election transition period, |
| 0:42.4 | where I will be interviewing subject matter experts and former and possible future Trump administration officials to understand what the incoming American administration's policies |
| 0:47.4 | in 2025 may look like for America, Canada, and the world. In this episode, I'm sitting down |
| 0:53.3 | today with Todd Benzman, an expert on the border and counterterrorism, and the author of the book, Overrun. |
| 0:59.5 | He's a senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. |
| 1:05.9 | We're launching a special American Thought Leaders series during this post-election transition period, |
| 1:12.0 | where I will be interviewing former and potential future Trump administration officials, |
| 1:16.7 | as well as topic matter experts, to understand the incoming administration's policies in 2025 |
| 1:22.5 | and what they might look like for America, Canada, and the world. |
| 1:26.7 | To start off, I'm sitting down today with |
| 1:29.0 | Todd Benzman, an expert on the border and counterterrorism, and author of the book, Overrun. |
| 1:34.5 | He's a senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies. Todd Benzman, |
| 1:39.3 | such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders. Great to be here. Thank you. |
| 1:47.0 | Let's figure out the state of play. You know, the Trump administration that's incoming, one of the key points that they made is that |
| 1:55.0 | we have to stop illegal immigration and in fact there will be some kind of, removal, mass deportations, and so forth. |
| 2:02.4 | So this is, of course, a very difficult thing to imagine in some ways. |
| 2:05.8 | But what is the actual reality that they face today on the ground or by January 20th? |
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