Harris needs to visit Horrifying Darien Gap to see true migrant pipeline, congressman says
America’s illegal immigration pipeline from Africa and the Middle East flows through one of the world’s most dangerous jungles where people are lucky to make it out alive.
The trek through the Darien Gap, which straddles Colombia and Panama, is 50 miles of poisonous snakes, scorpions, flooding, disease, and worst of all — a cadre of armed guerillas. Since Vice President
Kamala Harris wants to investigate the root cause of illegal immigration, she needs to see what true misery looks like at the Darien Gap, according to a congressman who was there on a self-funded trip.
About 250 people a day come through from about 80 countries, including Yemen, Egypt, Somalia, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Congo, Cuba, Haiti,
Russia, Pakistan, and others, said photojournalist Michael Yon, who has covered numerous wars and is now reporting on the
border crisis.
Graphic shows the route used by Cubans migrating toward the U.S. through Panama's Darien Gap region.
Harris needs to visit horrifying Darien Gap to see true migrant pipeline, congressman says