Major Smuggler of Immigrants from Mideast, Africa, etc. Arrested in Costa Rica
Nicaraguan known as 'Mama Africa' specialized in moving 'special-interest aliens' to the U.S.
By Todd Bensman on July 31, 2019
Emigrants on the move from Africa, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka through Costa Rica in December 2018
Reuters is reporting the bust of a major Costa Rica and Panama human smuggling operation "suspected of smuggling migrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean through Central America and toward the United States."
The national security significance of this operation is not explained in any of the reporting, especially that a long-targeted Nicaraguan smuggler based in Costa Rica was finally busted after years of American pursuit. She goes by the name of "Mama Africa," and she specialized in moving "special-interest aliens" from terror-prone nations like Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. As often reported here at CIS, these kinds of migrants are regarded in U.S. homeland security circles as at higher risk of committing acts of terrorism after they arrive at the U.S. southern border and request political asylum.
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