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

The Epoch Times - American Thought Leaders | Todd Bensman: Here's How Trump Can Fix the Border Crisis
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.”

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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