Consider the hellacious conditions to which people from all over the world are subjecting themselves in the Colombia/Panama jungles. Then, you just start to grasp the immense future suffering that our federal government is encouraging with its descent into transforming our country into one without immigration enforcement.
This from Agence France Press:
President Juan Carlos Varela on Tuesday said Panama would make an exception to its immigration restrictions for migrants who have recently crossed into Panama's Darien jungle.
Panama promised to help hundreds of migrants who have crossed its jungle border from Colombia to carry on toward the United States.
Around 800 US-bound migrants, most of them from Haiti, Africa, Asia and Cuba, are in dense jungle on the Panama-Colombia border, Varela said Friday.
He described it as "another migration crisis."
A further 2,500 are stranded in Panama's northern neighbor, Costa Rica, since the next country on the trail, Nicaragua, has tightened immigration controls.
Colombian authorities say they have deported thousands of migrants trying to reach Panama from its northern territory.
Varela said last week that many of the migrants were Haitians who had gone to Brazil after a 2010 earthquake devastated their country.
Brazil's current deep recession has driven them to try to get to the United States through Central America.
Think about it. People in Asia and Africa are making the long, expensive journey to SOUTH AMERICA to endure horrific conditions in a trek through jungles and risking all kinds of snafus trying to get past one country's government to another out of the belief that if they get into the United States THEY WILL NEVER HAVE TO LEAVE.
Why do they believe that?
Because the Obama Administration has demonstrated it repeatedly. Knock on the doors at the U.S. southern border and ask for refuge, and our government is likely to pay to move you around the country to settle in. The Obama Administration -- and three of the four Party nominees to be the next President -- have indicated to the world that if you can get into the United States you will never be required to leave unless you are convicted of a really violent crime.
That's why the Darien Jungle is full of people from all over the world risking everything for a chance at their American Dream.
What we saw over the last year in Europe is that this kind of open invitation eventually leads to chaos and heart-wrenching maiming and death among the migrants. There are hundreds of millions of people in the world who would like to move to the United States. The scene in the Darien Jungle is just a tiny preview of what could be unleashed if we continue to have national leaders who tout irresponsible invitations to global migration anarchy.
ROY BECK is Founder & President of NumbersUSA
