How to Stop the Entire World from Marching Across the U.S. Border
With friends like Colombia, Panama, and Costa Rica moving oceans of global migrants to the southern border, who needs enemies?
By Todd Bensman on October 7, 2021
A human migration tsunami of historic proportions — anywhere from 70,000 to 85,000 strong — is on its way from throughout the globe to the U.S. southern border, funneling through the notorious so-called “Darien Gap” jungle route that runs out of South America into Panama and then on northward to the U.S. border.
More international migrants are crossing through the gap than in anyone’s recorded memory, all heading to the U.S. southern border. The Associated Press said so. Axios said so. And now, of late, on the front page of its Sunday print edition, the New York Times has said so.
But nowhere in any of this profoundly belated coverage of U.S.-bound international migratory travel through the Darien was it mentioned that Panama on the other end of it — meaning, the actual U.S.-allied government of Panama — is itself the primary official smuggler. Nor was it ever mentioned that the U.S.-allied countries of Colombia and Costa Rica are just as complicit in materially facilitating the movement of migrants, as a matter of government policy, ever onward out of their territories toward the American border. Both Colombia and Costa Rica allow criminal smuggling organizations to operate mostly unfettered to achieve the national objective of clearing their own countries of a potentially expensive problem.
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