As illegal migration explodes, concerns grow U.S. tax dollars may be aiding trafficking

On a recent congressional trip to the Darién Gap in Panama, where tens of thousands of migrants begin their trek to the U.S. southern border, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., noted something remarkable.

"We've been saying for a very long time that any type of stimulus or funding going to illegal immigrants is going to end up one of two places," Morgan explained.

Though the majority of illegal immigrants currently crashing across the Mexico-U.S. border come from the "Northern Triangle" countries, which include Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, the chain begins hundreds of miles to the south in countries with relaxed visa laws that more easily permit migrants to arrive undetected and begin their travel north.

"We saw people with trench foot, we saw people that were pre-gangrenous with their feet looking as though they were about to fall off ... and many of these people said that if they had known what it was going to be like, they probably would have stayed in their home countries." Homan called the Darién Gap a "Significant weakness" to U.S. national security because criminal and terror elements have more free rein in the area.

"If Vice President Harris is truly serious about being the point person for the administration, in regards to border security, she needs to go south of the Northern Triangle, because it starts with the Darién Gap," he said.

Beyond a forthcoming meeting between Harris and heads of Northern Triangle countries, it is entirely unclear that the administration has any concrete plans to confront the border issue.

"We asked them 'Why are you coming here now?' and they said, 'because the Southern Border is open,'" Tiffany recalled.

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