This is a partial listing of book's content. This is intended to provide a general template for a study format. Topics are often organized separately from chapters. TOPICS SECTIONS Sections below: • Book/Author (includes chapters) • Recent U.S. Presidents (Author discusses these throughout book) • Gangs, Cartels • Strategies for Fighting Immigration (Author Bensman suggestions) • Democrat Radicals • Government • Attacks (by Antifa and Black Nationalists against: Trump, his supporters, ICE, white cops) ▪ Ice Attacks-Against ICE ▪ Antifa • Laws, Legislation, Acts • Mexican Law - Biden (linked to Biden White House behavior behind border crisis) • Court Cases • Reports • Media • Illegal Immigration Advocacy Groups • Terms Used • Anti-Discrimination Organizations; Studying Immig. Organizations; Political Parties • Caravans • Places (like U.S./Mexico border cities) • People BOOK/AUTHOR INFORMATION Author: Todd Bensman Book: Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, Publisher: Bombardier Publishing Date: 2023 ISBN: 978-1-63758-570-2 ISBN (eBook) 978-1-63758-571-9 Personal recommendation on chapters to start with: 4, The New Theologians; 5, Insane Asylum; Mexico Triggers Noah's Flood; 12, Terrorists in the Wire; 16, Texas Insurgency, Epilogue- There is Hope Chapters PART I SOWING SEEDS OF CHAOS Introduction 1 Meet the New Page in U.S. History 2 From Trump Effect to Biden Effect, The Science of Odds 3 An Imperfect Miracle Crackdown 4 The New Theologians 5 Insane Asylum PART II PANDEMONIUM 6 Adrenaline Rush 7 Mexico Triggers Noah's Flood 8 Child Endangerment 9 The Day the Sounds of Wall Construction Died PART III OVERUN 10 Land of the Deportation-Free, Home of the Criminal Alien, Runners and Got-Aways 11 A United Nations of Mass Migration 12 Terrorists in the Wire 13 Strangers, Warlords and Spies PART IV Schizophrenia 14 "Bidenville"-Revelations from the Del Rio Migrant Camp Crisis 15 White House Rebellion 16 Texas Unsurgency 17 Forever Impacts Epilogue There is Hope U.S. PRESIDENTS (Recent) Barack Obama Jan 20 2009-Jan 20, 2017 Donald Trump elected in 2016, president Jan 20, 2017 to Jan 20, 2020-Jan 6 riots happened Biden Jan 20 2021- GANGS, CARTELS Authors comments on Cartel-U.S. border security collusion: (Ch.1, p. 30) "Here, criminal cartels were in a consummated partnership with federal law enforcement officers in an organized smuggling enterprise that was still earning the cartels billions of dollars." "Badged, uniformed Border Patrol agents, National Guard soldiers, and often local law enforcement offics, all side arms holstered, acted as a welcoming committee. The officers chatted amiably with their former cartel adversaries and accepted the immigrant hand-offs like relay racers accepting a baton from teammates with a first-name collegiality that comes with routine and time." La Linea (Intro, p. 13)-context: $10,000-$12,000 fees involving young Central American men and long treks through wilderness STRATEGIES FOR FIGHTING IMMIGRATION (Author Bensman Input) Trump Era Mixture of Policies against Mass-Scale Illegal Immigration Remain in Mexico, Safe Third Country with Big Stick Diplomacy (Immigrants must try other countries first before US, using trade tariffs, have Mexico block Mexico southern border with Guatamela, cut US funding away from other countries), Air Deportations (Ch. 3, p. 76) context: 2019 Trump Era immigration crisis, "machine-engineered to squarely hit at the real root causes of mass migrations, the ones inside immigrant minds and bank accounts." DEMOCRAT RADICALS Democratic Party Radical Agendas showed up during presidential elections after Biden took office (Ch 3 p 76) Abolish Ice; End all Deportation; End Detention; Extend U.S. asylum access to all comers; grant mass citizenship; free health care to all; stop the wall. (Ch. 4, , p. 95) "It should not surprise anyone that [far left antifa types] would imbibe its radical ideas about shuttering detention centers and grand narratives about illegal immigrants as a civil rights victim group. What was a big surprise, however, was that California Senator Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, and a long who's who list of mainstream Democtratic politicans adopted all of it as their own-the new encoded language, the ideology and the policy ideas. That included every serious Democratic Party primary candidate for president. GOVERNMENT ENTITIES DIRECTLY OR GENERALLY LINKED TO IMMIGRATION OR BORDER SECURITY • DHS head of (Ch. 4, p. 110) Alejandro Mayorkas • HSS Office of Refugee Resettlement (Ch. 3, p. 70)-context is "kids in cages" controversy surrounding 2019 crisis of mass-scale child and family illegal immigrant surge during Trump era • Domestic Policy Council (senior advisor also under People) • Texas DPS Department of Public Safety, (Ch. 4, p. 78) • ICE (Ch. 4, p. 79) context: For my last 18 months with DPS, antifa occupied my team to protect the capitol and ICE agents, who had by then come under ubiquitous death threats." • ERO - ICE (Ch 10, p 223) context: “However, the administration pulled out the backup plan. It issued internal policy memos sharply restricting ICE’s arm responsible for interior deportations—the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Branch’s 6,000 officers—which illegal aliens they could arrest and which ones they must leave in peace. As if that were not enough, DHS established a long list of “protected areas.” These no-go zones included public grade schools and private universities, health care facilities, houses of worship or religious study, anywhere that children gather, and parades, demonstrations, and rallies.” • USCIS (Ch. 7, p. 164) shortly after Biden in, could not do credible fear interviews and immigrants were released on their own recognizance. • FBI, Ch. 4, p. 81 context: DHS-FBI assessment April 2016 antifa had become very aggressive ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION ADVOCACY GROUPS AND IMMIGRANT SHELTERS One of the things that author is expressing is "world view" and "language choices" Shelters Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition (Ch.7, p 164) Nonprofit volunteer organization in Del Rio, Texas that accepted Border Patrol handoffs "for release and transportation into the interior" shortly after Biden was in Social Services, Religious HIAS: Refugee Resettlement Agency, (p. 111, Chapter 4) Context: Alejandro Mayorkas was a board member, "advocates for the most liberal possible application of asylum regulations" Legal: Immigration lawyers and lawfirms, legal agencies American Immigration Lawyers Association Ch. 4, p. 111 National Immigration Law Center, Ch. 4, p. 113 Political Movement groups supporting immigrants or their general approach using civil rights types of reasoning UnidosUS National Council of La Raza p. 111 Ch 4. Context: they liked Mayorkas' nomination as head of DHS FWD.US, Ch. 4, p. 111, Context: advocated pathways to citizenship for illegal present immigrants; Zuckerberg funded America's Voice, (Ch. 4, p. 111) advocated pathways to citizenship Capital Research Center, (Ch. 4, p. 111) Antifa in general, loose assemblage of various entities Ch. 4, p. 78 IMMIGRATION STUDY Center for Immigration Studies (Intro, p. 12) Bensman's Washington, D.C. employer LAWS AND LEGISLATION - BORDERS, IMMIGRATION TVPRA (Ch. 2, p. 57) Flores Loophole (Ch. 2) Migrant Protection Protocols, MPP, Remain in Mexico, (Ch. 2, p. 49) context: Haitians rejected and stuck in Mexico. (Ch. 3, p. 71)-Bensman feels this is among the impactful of a group of tried Trump ideas to stop mass- scale immigrant, in response to 2019 mass-scale illegal immigrant Flores loophole crisis. COURT CASES DHS v. Thuraissigiam (Ch. 5, p. 133) 2020 The applicant need not show that he or she is in fact eligible for asylum at the initial credible fear screening stage, the Supreme Court noted REPORTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IN BOOK Homeland Security Advisory Council's Families and Children Care Panel Final Report (bipartisan) (Ch. 3, p. 70) laid blame for 2019 Trump Era mass-scale illegal immigration on Flores loophole and Democratic controlled Congress in delaying funds to handle all of the immigrant children and family groups. The system collapsed. Trump had requested HHS money for this. IWM, Institute for Women in Migration, March 2021 fact sheet (Ch. 7, p. 170) ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations report (Ch. 10, p. 225) context: annual report not published, Biden group was suppressing info MEXICO LAW - BIDEN (COINCIDED WITH BORDER SWELL SHORTLY AFTER BIDEN CAME INTO OFFICE) Various Articles of the Migration Law and the Law on Refugees are Reformed, Complementary Protection and Political Asylum in the Matter of Migrant Children (Ch. 7, p. 169) TERMS used in association with border security and illegal immigration TPS Temporary Protected Status Ch. 4, p. 112) NTA Notice to Appear (Ch. 7, p. 165) NTR Notice to Report (Ch.7, p. 165) NTA and NTR part of new "honor system" for immigrants ORGANIZATIONS STUDYING AND RESPONDING TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION (also see reports below) MEDIA MENTIONED IN BOOK The Atlantic (Ch. 3, p. 69)-David A. Graham wanted to focus on underlying causes like Central American Northern Triangle violence, antagonistic toward Trump in 2019. CNN International CNN en Espanol (Ch. 2, p. 47) MSNBC (Ch. 4, p. 112) National Public Radio (Ch. 3, p. 69)-"dark vision" with no basis in truth-in terms of Trump's approach Texas Tribune Washington Post, Ch. 4, p. 81 ATTACKS: Attacks by Antifa, Black Nationalists against Trump, his supporters, ICE, white cops; Black Nationalist attacks on white police officers Baton Rouge, Louisiana-Gavin Long ICE - Attacks Against ICE see Ch. 4 The New Theologians Van Spronsen attacks, attacks by Occupy Ice militants Ch. 4, p. 90 van Spronsen set flares under a 500 pound propane tank. Hurled Molotov cokctails at ICE buildings and transport buses. Pointed AR-15 gun at Tacoma police officers, they shot him dead. Today he is seen as a "radicalized left-wing domestic terrorist. Bensman is including his story to demonstrate a link between the far left and presidential candidates and eventual Biden White House. (Ch. 4, p. 89): Starting in early 2018, Occupy ICE militants were moving into tents near federal facilities for weeks and months Antifa Riots also some of this found under Locations California, Utah, Chicago, Ohio, New York, Texas in general Orange County, Costa Mesa, April 2016 riot "left Trump supporters bloodied" Ch. 4, p. 81 San Jose, California, Ch. 4, p. 81 context: indoor rally, "Protesters punched passive rally participants bloody, pelted them with eggs, and snatched Make America Great Again heads off heads and lit them on fire. Front and center in all this were Mexican flags waving from vehicles nearby." Albuquerque, NM Ch. 4, p. 81 "antifa militants launced a violent assault on 1000 peaceful protesters at a Trump rally." Dallas, Texas, Ch. 4, p. 82 Houston, Texas, Ch. 4., p. 82 FORMAL ANTI-DISCRIMATION/ANTI-RACISM ORGANIZATIONS ADL Anti-Defamation League Ch. 4, p. 78 ; context: definition of Antifa POLITICAL PARTY Democrat Party: (Ch. 4, p. 79) context: The entire Democratic Party's Immigration policy agenda seemed as though it were lifted straight from the antifa street signs and graffiti we'd studied.; (Ch. 2, p. 51) old European idea CARAVANS Bensman discusses various caravans of illegal immigrants heading to or reaching US border, these are often a large number of migrants who travel together PLACES Geographic locations mentioned involving immigrants, cartels, ICE or CBP sites, etc. Cities/Towns along US-Mexico border mentioned in book Overrun, often mirror cities, shown with US and Mexico side by side UNITED STATES MEXICO MENTIONED IN BOOK OVERRUN Del Rio, Texas* Acuna (State of Coahuila) Ch. 7, pp. 164-165 Eagle Pass, Texas* Piedras Negras Coahuila Ch. 2, p. 6 Ch. 7, p. 166 San Diego, California Tijuana Ch. 11 p. 258 El Paso Juarez Ch. 3, p. 71 McAllen, Texas Reynosa Ch. 7 p. 166 Brownsville Monterrey Not listed or noted Tapachula Ch. 2, p. 49; Ch. 11, p. 248 Roma, Texas Ch. 1, p. 29 Presidio Texas Not listed or noted Ojinaga, Chihuahua Intro, p. 11 Laredo, Texas Ch. 7 p. 166 Neely Ranch, Texas Ch. 10, p. 433 Mexico States: Coahuila; Chihuahua; Tamaulipas; etc. Marfa, Texas Ch. 10, p. 229 Hwy 90 West Texas I-10 West Texas Ch. 10, p. 231 Valentine, Texas Ch. 10, p. 231 Sierra Blanca Ch. 10 Northern Triangle in Central America (Ch. 3, p. 69) Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, because a lot of immigrants have come from there in general, different rules by the U.S. government have at different times been set up for these types of immigrants Some other northern Mexico cities mentioned Nuevo Laredo, Piedras Negras, Matamoros (Ch. 7 p. 168) *Del Rio and Eagle Pass mirror cities in Mexico city did not require a cartel tax to cross (Ch. 14, p. 283) so this increased the numbers of immigrants, like during the Del Rio Haitian camp crisis Pearsall, Texas is a significant city because of an ICE interrogation site there Antifa attacks: see Antifa below for more excerpted information-against Trump and Trump supporters Austin, Texas Capitol Complex, Ch. 4, p. 79, context: The activists began striking at the Austin complex and elsewhere in the state when Trump took office Orange County, city of Costa Mesa, California Ch. 4, p. 81 context: April 16, 2016 riot Albuquerque, New Mexico Dallas, Texas Houston, Texas Baton Rouge, Louisiana - black nationalist killing of white cop PEOPLE discussed in book (Names of People-Study Sheet Bensman/Overrun Notes: People like Biden are discussed a lot in the book, so not every mention occurs on this list. "Some Bad Guys" list is started at bottom of page. Biden, Joe Joe Biden, (Ch. 4, p. 79); (Part I heading) quote from Aug. 12, 2007 in pro-border security stance at that time Burrow, Tiffany (Ch. 7 p. 166) Del Rio nonprofit center VVBHC Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition operation director (Ch. 15, p. 314) Context: "the organization was helping immigrants from more than thirty non-Mexican countries make their ways to Florida, New Jersey, New York State, Oregon, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Utah, California, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado". This is in the context of Mayorkas reducing the expulsion rate by 60 percent by the summer of 2022, which was after an original Democrat centrist effort to increase expulsions earlier. This brought back a huge new group of illegal immigrants. People like Burrow who helped immigrants once they got into the USA could report on how many and where they were going, as in this case. Cartwright, Thomas (Ch. 15, p. 297) context: worked out a systsem to tally the air expulsions of immigrant deportees by using public flight tracking databases. Felt by the end of July 2022, more than 250,000 immigrants had been deported out of country on Biden's watch. Clem, Chris T., Chief Border Patrol (Ch. 11, p. 257)-Context: In first quarter of 2021, shortly after Biden came into presidential office, Border Patrol caught a 33 year old Yemeni man near Calexico, California, a two hour drive from Tijuana. He was on the terrorist watch and no-fly lists. A second 26 year old Yemeni was also caught in this time period also near Calexico. He was also on the terrorist and no-fly list. Clinton, Bill Clinton, September 2022 CNN interview, Ch. 4, p. 77 Clinton, Hillary (Ch. 2, p. 47) Foote, Daniel (Ch. 15, p. 299) context: former Special Envoy ambassador to Haiti, resigned two months after assigned to Haiti by Biden because he felt he was being used to support a dictator in return for dictator accepting large number of Del Rio Haitian deportees, dictatorship in contrast with original plan to help with democratic national elections Flores, Andrea (Ch. 15, p. 301) National Security Advisor. Context: Member of Democrats' Progressive wing listed in contrast with Democrat centrists or moderates. Ch. 15, p. 310) Resigned. Harris, Kamala (Ch. 2, p. 52)-root causes for vast immigrant influx Hetfield, Mark (Ch. 4, p. 111), CEO and President of HIAS, Context: strong support of Mayorkas as an "empathic leader who knows the heart of the stranger" Koh, Harold (Ch. 15, p. 309) senior adviser and political appointee on the State Department's legal team. Context: one of first to resign over Title 42 used to deport Haitians. Klain, Ron (Ch. 15, p. 300) Biden White House Chief of Staff Landau, Christopher (Ch. 7, p.163, 171) former ambassador to Mexico under Trump LeDuff, Charlie (Ch. 11, p. 259) (Ch. 11, p. 259) Context: New York Times former writer Jan. 2022 article on terrorist Issam Bazzi. Leland, Chris (Intro, p. 13) "gringo" along border who "served as interpreter and guide" Marguia, Janet president of UnidosUS (originally the National Council of La Raza) Context: approved of Mayorkas' appointment as head of DHS, also found under Illegal Immig. Advocay Groups Mayorkas, Alejandro Ali Intro, (Ch. 4, starting p. 110) introductory discussion on him; (Ch. 1, p. 43)how Mayorkas was using double-speak or direct communication to show support for illegal immigration, ie, "grant newcomers access to asylum system" and "safe, legal and orderly pathways for individuals to access our legal system." (Ch. 15, p. 301) context: on list of Democrat leftists supporting open borders in contrast with list of Democrat centrists in discussion on White House Rebellion against leftists. Ch. 15, p. 310, after a lot of leftists resigned in late 2021 and early 2022, Mayorkas remained and "had the ear of illegal immigration proponents." Moran, Tyler, (Ch. 4, p. 112) Domestic Policy Council (also seen under govt. entities). (Ch. 15, p. 310) Resigned in December 2021. Olavarria, Esther (Ch. 15, p. 301) leftist on author's list as open border type. (Ch. 15, p. 310) resigned in Jan. 2022. Obama, Barack Senator-quote-(Ch. 4, p. 77) Reid, Henry (Ch. 4, p. 112) Richmond, Cedric (Ch. 15, p 300) Senior Advisor Shahoulian, David (Ch. 15, p. 310) senior DHS adviser. Context: resigned in Sept 2021. Sokoler, Jennifer (Ch. 15, p. 300) White House attorney Rice, Susan (Ch. 15, p. 301) Domestic Policy Council advisor van Spronsen, Willem (Ch. 4, p. 89 introduced, discussed for several pages) anarchist, antifa Sherwood-Randall, Liz (Ch. 15, p. 300) Homeland Security Advisor. Context: on author's list of Biden people in the more conservative group "pushing tough deterrence strategies" on immigration Sullivan, Jake (Ch. 15, p. 301) National Security Advisor Trump Donald Trump, (Ch. 4, p. 77) Nov. 8 2016 elected president. Villa, Pancho (Intro, p. 12) 1914 battle at Ojinaga with Hollywood movie actual filming Ziobrowski, Brandon (Ch. 4, p. 95) arrested using Twitter to bribe followers to kill ICE agents Zuckerberg, Mark (Ch 4, p. 112) Facebook founder; context: liberal billionaires funding far-left "farm teams" Young, Shon Ch. 7, p. 164 director of Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition in Del Rio, Texas Some Bad Guys Listed in Book Bazzi, Issam Ch. 11, p.258 (Terrorist in the Wire chapter). Context: Lebanon born Venezuelan