By Todd Bensman

Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) August 29, 2024

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The migration machine from Central America to the U.S. southern border is “oiled up and really working well,” said Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies after his recent trip to Panama and Colombia.

Bensman reports that on both sides of the Panama-Colombia border “there were NGOs everywhere. The United Nations, they had whole compounds that were just filled with immigrants, with storefronts all around.” The migrants were offered food and water, supplies, legal advice, mobile phone charging stations and more.

“You can find those kind of camps, the UN presence and the NGOs, at way stations from where I was in Colombia, all the way to the northern border with Mexico, and all along our border,” Bensman said. “It’s very industrial, very organized now. They’ve had three years to get this thing oiled up and really working well. And it is.”