Post by JDCJJ on Sept 27, 2024 11:45:13 GMT -6
Biden's migrant 'super-highway' revealed: Millions in US taxpayer cash turned the world's deadliest smuggling route into a 'safe' passage... how TODD BENSMAN was threatened for exposing it
CAPURGANA, Colombia – 'Hey! Hey you! Alto! Stop!' three Colombian cartel soldiers shouted at me and my translator as we ducked into a small shop and pretended not to hear their commands.
I'd come to Capurgana, a dusty seaside village on the northwest coast of Colombia to investigate international efforts to shut down one of the world's most notorious human smuggling routes – the Darien Gap.
It's a 70-mile stretch of dense jungle connecting South America and Panama through which 1.5 million migrants from 170 countries have passed from 2021 to August 2024.
Capurgana is one of the last major stops before these travelers enter Central America seeking a new life further north, invariably in the U.S.
What I discovered shocked me – and, for a heart-pounding moment, I thought I'd never make it out with the story.
Instead of finding any progress toward reining in a historic illegal immigration crisis here, I uncovered the opposite.
No longer a torturous seven-day trek, the current passage through the Darien Gap is a two or three-day walk along trails heavily patrolled by Panamanian border police.
Why? In April 2022, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas signed an agreement with Panama to help ease the humanitarian disaster - that the White Hoyuse helped create by throwing open America's gates.
The administration declared its commitment to 'safe, orderly, and humane migration,' worldwide.
In 2023, U.S. State Department agencies further increased contributions to the United Nations's International Organization for Migration to a staggering $1.4 billion, according to a database that tracks federal spending.
Hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars began flowing into Panama.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13895773/Biden-migrant-darien-gap-todd-bensman.html
CAPURGANA, Colombia – 'Hey! Hey you! Alto! Stop!' three Colombian cartel soldiers shouted at me and my translator as we ducked into a small shop and pretended not to hear their commands.
I'd come to Capurgana, a dusty seaside village on the northwest coast of Colombia to investigate international efforts to shut down one of the world's most notorious human smuggling routes – the Darien Gap.
It's a 70-mile stretch of dense jungle connecting South America and Panama through which 1.5 million migrants from 170 countries have passed from 2021 to August 2024.
Capurgana is one of the last major stops before these travelers enter Central America seeking a new life further north, invariably in the U.S.
What I discovered shocked me – and, for a heart-pounding moment, I thought I'd never make it out with the story.
Instead of finding any progress toward reining in a historic illegal immigration crisis here, I uncovered the opposite.
No longer a torturous seven-day trek, the current passage through the Darien Gap is a two or three-day walk along trails heavily patrolled by Panamanian border police.
Why? In April 2022, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas signed an agreement with Panama to help ease the humanitarian disaster - that the White Hoyuse helped create by throwing open America's gates.
The administration declared its commitment to 'safe, orderly, and humane migration,' worldwide.
In 2023, U.S. State Department agencies further increased contributions to the United Nations's International Organization for Migration to a staggering $1.4 billion, according to a database that tracks federal spending.
Hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars began flowing into Panama.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13895773/Biden-migrant-darien-gap-todd-bensman.html