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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5981621" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13895773/Biden-migrant-darien-gap-todd-bensman.html[/URL]For decades, fewer than 10,000 migrants a year passed through towns like Capurgana to cross the Darien Gap.But after President Joe Biden came into office, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9349639/Migrant-families-arriving-officials-say-fear-39-000-not-apprehended-year.html" target="_blank">demolished his predecessor&#039;s security measures and essentially opened the U.S. southern border</a>, that number increased to 133,000 immigrants in 2021.In 2023, 520,000 traversed the Gap.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.In 2023, U.S. State Department agencies further increased contributions to the United Nations&#039;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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5981621, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13895773/Biden-migrant-darien-gap-todd-bensman.html[/URL] For decades, fewer than 10,000 migrants a year passed through towns like Capurgana to cross the Darien Gap. But after President Joe Biden came into office, [URL='https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9349639/Migrant-families-arriving-officials-say-fear-39-000-not-apprehended-year.html']demolished his predecessor's security measures and essentially opened the U.S. southern border[/URL], that number increased to 133,000 immigrants in 2021. In 2023, 520,000 traversed the Gap. 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. 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. [/QUOTE]

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