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Chuck Holton

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Parsing Immigration Policy2 episodes

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Parsing Immigration Policy
Parsing Immigration Policy

Panel: OVERRUN - The Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History

Summary The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion on February 21 featuring three reporters who have covered the border crisis from the frontlines. Their on-the-ground field reporting in Central America, Mexico, and along the U.S.-Mexico border – far from Washington, D.C. – reflects the stories and actions of the primary sources: the migrants, law enforcement, and the residents impacted by the millions of foreign nationals coming to America. The conversation centered around a new book, “OVERRUN: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History”, authored by Todd Bensman – the Center’s Texas-based Senior National Security Fellow and a former counterterrorism intelligence practitioner and journalist. Bensman writes, “Unfortunately, a fog of fierce partisanship in the media obscures that fact that the border crisis is even happening, as well as basic truths Americans desperately need to know about this historic event.”
Host:
Mark Krikorian
Organization
Center for Immigration Studies

February 2022

Parsing Immigration Policy
Parsing Immigration Policy

How to Stop the Migrant Surge through Panama’s Darien Gap

View Podcast Archive Summary Thousands of migrants every week pass though Panama’s Darien Gap, a narrow jungle passage between Panama and Colombia, on their way north to the United States. In this week’s Center for Immigration Studies podcast, Parsing Immigration Policy, Chuck Holton, an author, war correspondent, and U.S. Army ranger who has lived in Panama since 2012, discusses the jungle migrant route, its impact on the indigenous tribes, and the Panamanian government’s role in assisting the global migrants on their journey to the U.S. southern border. Migrants move through the Darien Gap – a roadless, triple canopy rainforest, which holds danger and death for many migrants. The migrant surge has been an economic boon for the Embera tribe in the Darien Gap, but has destroyed their way of life and has drawn many individuals into the human smuggling trade. Holton describes what happens when the migrants exit the jungle.
Host:
Mark Krikorian
Organization
Center for Immigration Studies