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#Bestof2022: #DarienGap: Panama: The Great Migration: The Afghans, the Mainland Chinese, the Venezuelans, the Haitians. Michael Yon MichaelYon/Locals.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally posted April 23, 2021)

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

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#Bestof2022: #DarienGap: Panama: The Great Migration: The Afghans, the Mainland Chinese, the Venezuelans, the Haitians. Michael Yon MichaelYon/Locals.com #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally posted April 23, 2021)

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The United States, if you're coming from Africa or the Caribbean or South America or Central Asia,

1:31.0

you must traverse the 60 miles or more of triple canopy jungle with mountainous passes

1:38.0

and swollen rivers to reach where Michael is right now.

1:42.0

Since last year there's been a change in the flow of migrants, not only increased which Michael is testified to,

1:50.0

but where they're coming from. Michael, if I recall correctly,

1:55.0

last year we puzzled about where the migrants were coming from.

1:59.0

And when you first recorded from the Columbia side of the Darian gap,

2:04.0

you met a Nepali's man and you spent time in Nepal,

2:08.0

and so he was looking for his friends and we were struck by the fact that people were coming from Central Asia.

2:14.0

Via a transit, say he worked for Wile and Chile or worked for Wile in Brazil,

2:20.0

and now he was making his way to the United States.

2:23.0

And I'm presuming he's listening to us now, Michael.

2:25.0

This is the United States and that's where he was going. Good for him.

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