As we reported earlier this month, migrants from all over the world are currently pouring through the Darién Gap in Panama en route to the United States. The foreign minister of Panama, Erika Mouynes, has now published an article in Foreign Policy calling attention to the problem and pointing out that terrorists are known to be intermingling with the migrants. Entitled “The (Literal) Gap in U.S. Migration Policy,” the article takes the Biden administration to task for ignoring the role of Panama in the crisis. In Kamala Harris’s recent trip to Central America, for example, Panama was left off the agenda. Mouynes writes:
The problem of uncontrolled migration is not isolated to Texas, California, New Mexico, or Arizona. Farther south, on the Panamanian border, a parallel crisis is unfolding as unprecedented numbers of migrants from Haiti, Cuba, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East attempt to cross the Darién Gap en route to Canada and the United States.
Noting that more than 1,000 migrants are currently arriving in Panama every day from Colombia, its neighbor to the south, she says that among all those migrants are individuals linked to extremist groups. When recognized, those persons are detained by Panamanian authorities, but the sheer numbers make the situation “untenable.”
Earlier this month, Mouynes told Bloomberg News that her country had seen a fivefold increase in the number of migrants coming through this year. Most are from Haiti and Cuba, she said, but many other countries are represented as well, such as Bangladesh and Uzbekistan. She said of the migrants:
We give them food, we put them in camps where you do biometric testing and Covid testing. That is fine if you have numbers you can manage, but if all of a sudden you have five times that amount it becomes difficult.
Authorities in Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona can sympathize. Hard times all around.
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