Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is John Bachelor, speaking with my good colleague Joseph Sternberg,

member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

He's based in London.

Writing political economics, we speak of life in London.

And this controversy for weeks and weeks now,

apparently beginning to be resolved, it's called the Rwanda bill

and it's passed several readings in the House and now is law. The idea here is to deal with the

phenomena across Europe of migrants coming from the Global South from Africa and Asia, moving from

areas of danger, bad governance, want to the perceived bounty of the European Union, the very successful

27 state European Union, the equally successful 32 state NATO and in the quest for security and

prosperity for themselves and their children some risk the English

channel and what is to be done because as a headline in the Times of

London says five dead one seven-year-old girl found bodies found on the French coast. These small boats and

the risk they take in the Rolling English Channel. Here's Joseph Sternberg to explain

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