Darién Gap: One Year Later | Part One: After The Jungle
It Could Happen Here
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4.0 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In the first of a four part series, James catches up with Primrose and her daughter Kim, who he met in the Darien Gap. We hear about the journey from Panama to the USA’s southern border, and the challenges migrants face along the way.
Primrose’s Legal Aid Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/immigration-lawyer-for-primrose
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/world/americas/trump-us-mexico-border.html
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/article299272524.html
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-orders/
http://www.toddmillerwriter.com/border-patrol-nation/
https://timzhernandez.com/all-they-will-call-you/
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Cool Zone Media. Like most of you, I wasn't having a great day on the 20th of January of 2025. |
| 0:39.3 | I wasn't about to watch the inauguration, so I went for a run in the mountains instead. |
| 0:44.3 | I spent the next few weeks trying to focus on the things we could do, the things we had to do, to get through four years of fascism. |
| 0:52.3 | Just a few miles away from my house, I set out for my run, and unbeknown to me, my friend |
| 0:57.4 | Primrose was staring down from the top of a 30-foot steel monument to hate that Donald |
| 1:01.7 | Trump had built the last time he was president. |
| 1:04.9 | To be more accurate, it was one that he had been modified. |
| 1:06.9 | There have been versions of the border wall in San Diego for decades. |
| 1:11.4 | They said, no, we have a option. |
| 1:13.9 | We need to take you. |
| 1:14.8 | But, you know, for me, I had to take a risk because I was scared to stay in Mexico. |
| 1:23.0 | So they took us under the bridge. |
| 1:25.7 | I think the sewage, we were walking with our stomach like under the bridge |
| 1:30.2 | until we get to USA and Mexican borders. |
| 1:36.6 | So they put ladder for us to help us. |
| 1:40.3 | Those people, when they saw American immigration came, they just removed the ladder. |
| 1:46.8 | And me, I was on top. |
| 1:49.3 | So I had, yeah, I was stuck there, and I had no choice, and Kim, but she was crying. |
| 1:54.4 | Like, come, let's go, let's go. |
| 1:58.5 | At that time, I knew nothing about it, but her daughter Kim had already jumped. |
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