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Federalist Radio Hour

The Migrant ‘Superhighway’ Nobody Is Talking About

Federalist Radio Hour

Radio America

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Todd Bensman, the Texas-based senior national security fellow for the Center for Immigration Studies, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how the Biden administration's diplomacy opened up a "superhighway" of illegal immigration in South America and makes the U.S. southern border even more vulnerable to crime and crisis.

Read Bensman's latest report "New Migrant 'Superhighway' Bringing the World from South America to Texas" here: https://cis.org/Bensman/New-Migrant-Superhighway-Bringing-World-South-America-Texas

Transcript

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1:07.5

We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour. I'm Emily Gisinski

1:11.5

Culture Editor here at the Federalist. As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com.

1:16.5

Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST. Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.

1:22.4

Today we're back with one of my favorite guests. That would be Todd Benzman who has a fantastic new

1:28.0

piece out at the Center for Immigration Studies. Todd, thank you so much for joining us.

1:33.6

Right to be here anytime. Now, Todd, your new report, I think, is... I'll just read the headline.

1:40.0

New Migrant Superhighway, bringing the world from South America to Texas. The subhead is Biden

1:45.6

Diplomacy Shortens Infamous Darian Gat Passage and increases access to fast pass Mexican visas.

1:52.0

What this story describes is an incredible acceleration in the border crisis that will be felt

2:00.4

in the coming months I have heard. Basically not a peep about it from the legacy media.

2:06.8

But it does seem to also have been a very direct result of Biden administration policies.

2:12.1

So, Todd, I think a good place to start is if you could describe for us the Darian Gat

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