On July 1, Panama’s new, President José Raúl Mulino, took office with an unprecedented promise to close the Darien Gap illegal immigration route. He secured a commitment from the Biden-Harris administration to help accomplish this: money and possibly even planes to carry illegally arriving migrants back to their countries.
However, nearly two months after the U.S. pledged a “removal flights program” to support Panama, the aid has not arrived, and thousands of illegal aliens are starting to move north again toward the U.S. Todd Bensman, a reporter for the Center for Immigration Studies explains what is happening and why.