Your Tax Dollars At Work: The Darien Gap

 An article at the Daily Mail, "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," explains how your tax dollars made it easier for illegals to flood north through the Darien Gap in Panama.

    If you haven't followed Michael Yon's reporting on illegals, you might not know what is the Darien Gap. Basically, as the article explains, "[i]t'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." Coming north from South America, the city of Capurgana marks the beginning of the journey through the Darien Gap. There, migrants are "met on the docks by foot soldiers of the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a powerful paramilitary drug-trafficking cartel that rules the region's smuggling routes," to whom they pay hundreds of dollars for permission to head north.

    At one time, travel through the Gap was dangerous because it was through thick jungle with no roads. Consequently, Bensman says, "[f]or decades, fewer than 10,000 migrants a year passed through towns like Capurgana to cross the Darien Gap." But, and this is the key part:

    But after President Joe Biden came into office, demolished his predecessor's security measures and essentially opened the U.S. southern border, that number increased to 133,000 immigrants in 2021.

    Then, the seven-day crossing was still notorious for rapes, robberies and murders.

    Indigenous inhabitants on the Panamanian side routinely killed migrants for their money and valuables. Women ran the risk of sexual assault from fellow migrants and cartel guides. Flash floods along the river were known to sweep away entire families camping in the middle of the night. The weak and injured were routinely left by the trailside to die.

    Now, nearly everything has changed.

    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 [sic] 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.

    The nation built new migrant processing centers and welcomed dozens of non-governmental agencies to provide aid to the illegal travelers.

    So much was the investment that the once dangerous passage now resembles an American-built migrant 'super-highway.' As a result, illegal immigration in the Darien Gap has exploded even further.

    Crossings grew to 250,000 by the end of 2022.

    In 2023, 520,000 traversed the Gap.

    Midway through this year, nearly a quarter million had made the trip.

    I believe that Biden, Mayorkas, and probably hundreds of other bureaucrats that assisted in this program, facilitated an invasion of the United States for the purpose of undermining the Constitutional order and advancing their own or their party's political power, disrupting the economy, destroying the native-born peoples of this country, and assisting foreign adversaries and criminal organizations. 

Related: "Documents Reveal Airports Used by Secretary Mayorkas to Fly Hundreds of Thousands of Inadmissible Aliens into U.S. Via CHNV Mass-Parole Scheme"--U.S. House of Representatives, Homeland Security Committee.