Bummer: South American Fake Asylum Seekers Turning Around, Going Home

This is what happens when the federal government institutes policies that entice people to not come illegally/seek fake asylum. When the government rounds them up and deports them. When it says “don’t come.”

They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning

They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S.

Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum, and are returning to the countries they once sought to escape.

One of those speed boats zipped through dense jungle-cloaked rivers near the Colombia-Panama border on Sunday, headed south. Inside were around 20 migrants clinging to their backpacks and shielding themselves from the water’s spray.

Many of those same people waited months, sometimes more than year in Mexico to get an asylum appointment in the U.S. through a Biden-era CBP One app, which ended under Trump.

“ When Trump arrived and eliminated the application (CBP One) all our hopes went up in smoke,” said Karla Castillo, a 36-year-old Venezuelan traveling with her younger sister.

If they had real asylum claims they would continue, right? Except just 10% are accepted for asylum. Anyhow, they call this a “reverse flow.”

The boats were part of a well oiled migrant smuggling machine that once raked in money from the steady flow of hundreds of thousands of people headed north nearly a year ago.

The boat route, which crosses through Indigenous Guna Yala lands, was once part of what smugglers called the VIP route, in which migrants paid more so they wouldn’t have to take the deadly trek through the Darien Gap.

But now that much of the Darien’s migrant smuggling industry has collapsed, some smugglers are taking advantage of the reverse migration to charge steep costs to migrants – between $200 and $250 per person, including minors – for the boat rides.

And Democrats abetted this by enticing the illegals to make the dangerous trek. How much did they aid this by providing US taxpayer money to help the illegals make the trek? How much was fed from federal agencies such as USAID to NGOs and other private groups to distribute that money to helping illegals? All while pocketing quite a bit themselves.

Now, notice that photo, which is the first one in the AP article: go scroll the others. There are very few women and children. It is mostly men. As usual. How many are criminals? Why do we see so few families?

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