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Todd Bensman of the Center For Immigration Studies published an exclusive report for the Daily Mail on Friday, titled, “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.”
Bensman, who reports extensively on the illegal immigration crisis, explains that he had traveled to Columbia to investigate the notorious human smuggling operation that has been taking place through the Darien Gap, where 1.5 million migrants from 170 countries have passed through from 2021 to August 2024.
“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,” Bensman wrote. He added:
Migrants arrive in Capurgana daily by the hundreds from all over South America and places as far-flung as Africa, the Middle East and China. They’re 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.
The migrants pay hundreds of dollars each for passage and permission to travel north through the Darien Gap to Panama and beyond.
Bensman said he posed as a tourist, as he’d been warned the cartel watch everyone. First, he flew his drone around the area from the window of his hotel room, “filming the Gaitanistas shuttling men, women and children from the docks to the Darien Gap to begin their journey.”
However, once he went outside on the ground, he was soon chased down “by three Gaitanistsa goons” and ordered to turn over his camera, or else! They weren’t buying his story that he was a tourist.
Seeing no way to escape, he finally sat down and told them he was an American journalist. They ordered him to get out of town by the next morning.
Bensman explained how the Biden administration has created a “super highway” for a mass invasion of the United States. He wrote:
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.
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.
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From CIS.org:
Todd Bensman, the Center’s National Security Fellow and author of the report, traveled from Colombia to the Darien Gap – a remote, roadless jungle on the Panama-Colombia border – where he conducted an exclusive interview with all five Embera chiefs. They unanimously agreed that mass migration through the Darien Gap, drawn by changes in U.S. policies in 2021, has caused significant harm to their traditional way of life.
In addition to the erosion of the tribal culture and the spread of drug and alcohol problems among the Embera people, the tribal leaders have reported severe environmental degradation. Open sewage and waste left by migrants have polluted the rivers, once the tribe’s clean water source. The chiefs expressed deep frustration with the UN and the other international organizations and NGOs that facilitate the mass illegal migration, accusing them of failing to consider the impact on their communities.
WATCH the must-see video below, as Bensman explains how the US, UN and NGOs have colluded together to funnel millions of migrants through Panama and on toward the United States.
TODD BENSMAN was threatened for exposing Biden’s migrant super-highway https://t.co/OY0l5gaz2A
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) September 27, 2024
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