Rightwing Media is Obsessed with the Darien Gap

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Immigrants are being ambushed by rightwing activists with cameras at a dangerous crossing.

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0:00.0	This is on the media.
0:02.8	I'm Michael Lohanger.
0:04.7	Immigration consistently polls as one of the most important topics for voters.
0:10.7	Well, some voters, according to a recent Gallup poll, immigration is the most polarizing
0:16.7	issue of the last 25 years, with 48% of Republicans saying it's the most important issue compared to just 8% of Republicans saying it's the most important issue compared to just 8% of Democrats.
0:26.6	This probably has something to do with the coverage of immigration in conservative media, and recently
0:32.1	right-wing pundits have begun to focus on one of the most dangerous
0:36.2	parts of a migrant's journey north from South America.
0:40.1	Here's Tucker Carlson.
0:41.1	Last year, at least 520,000 migrants crossed it to come here.
0:47.5	How did that happen?
0:49.1	What is it?
0:50.1	What is going on in the Darien Gap?
0:52.4	In March, New York Times reporter Ken Benzinger reported a story from the Darien
0:57.4	Gap in Panama, which was once thought to be too perilous to cross, but which now sees thousands of migrants make their way through every
1:05.8	month.
1:06.8	A podcast we listen to regularly here at O.T.M. is the Daily News Show, What Next?
1:13.5	hosted by our former W NYC colleague Mary Harris,
1:17.0	who now works at Slate.
1:18.8	And on a recent episode, Mary spoke to Ken Benzinger
1:21.8	about this new right-wing media obsession with the Darien gap.
1:26.1	Here's Mary.
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