With the return of the Trump administration, the worst of America’s self-induced border crisis ended abruptly. Trump’s new National Defense Areas and personnel increases have made the U.S.-Mexico border more secure than ever. The Biden-era programs that encouraged asylum fraud and immigration parole have been eliminated. But challenges remain.
Read MoreHow did illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border become the mess that it is? U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) encounters with migrants averaged under 600,000 in fiscal years 2010–20, but tripled in fiscal 2021, the year Biden took office, to a record of nearly 1.9 million, and reached 3.2 million in fiscal 2023. What…
Read MoreEvery night inside the chain link fence of Panama’s San Vicente Migration Reception Station near the Colombian border, up to a thousand or more migrants emerge from a sea of tents to board a caravan of sixty-seat buses run by the Panamanian government. Together in a convoy, the buses travel overnight to another migration reception…
Read MoreAt a nationally televised press conference in Panama City in March 2019, a China-funded team of Chinese and Panamanian engineers took the stage. They unveiled the results of their feasibility study of the proposed high-speed Panama-Chiriquí Railway. They announced that the megaproject would cost $4.1 billion and take six years to build. Travel time from…
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