Central American Countries Are Helping Middle Easterners Illegally Enter The United States
Panama and Costa Rica are chokepoints on
the migrant trail followed by people from other continents seeking
easier U.S. entry through our porous border with Mexico.
In December 2018, the Center for Immigration Studies
dispatched Senior National Security Fellow Todd Bensman to Panama and
Costa Rica to investigate President Donald Trump’s widely ridiculed
assertions that suspected terrorists had been apprehended among Middle
East migrants through Latin America. Panama is a geographic chokepoint,
or bottleneck, through which migrants from countries of the Middle East,
who are moving out of South America, must push on their way to the U.S.
border.
The following article is based on Bensman’s on-the-ground research over two weeks. His video reports, photos, and writings from the trip can be found here.
Golfito, Costa Rica —
It was here in March 2017, at the main aluminum structure of a
government migrant camp, that federal Costa Rican police arrested
Ibrahim Qoordheen of Somalia as a suspected al Shabaab terrorist
operative on his way to the U.S. southern border.
Qoordheen had been smuggled from Zambia to Brazil, passed through Panama, and was making his way north through Costa Rica when the Americans had him arrested here, 20 miles inside Costa Rica, according to an American intelligence official with knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Golfito camp, with a capacity of 250, was set up as a two-day rest station for South America-exiting migrants whom the governments of Panama and Costa Rica register and help move through northward to Nicaragua.
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The following article is based on Bensman’s on-the-ground research over two weeks. His video reports, photos, and writings from the trip can be found here.
Qoordheen had been smuggled from Zambia to Brazil, passed through Panama, and was making his way north through Costa Rica when the Americans had him arrested here, 20 miles inside Costa Rica, according to an American intelligence official with knowledge of the case who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Golfito camp, with a capacity of 250, was set up as a two-day rest station for South America-exiting migrants whom the governments of Panama and Costa Rica register and help move through northward to Nicaragua.
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