Panama border chief: only a fraction of migrant flow is checked

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Panama border chief: He’s catching lots of U.S.-bound terror
suspects, though only a fraction of the flow is checked
Washington, D.C. (August 29, 2023) – During a reporting trip to the Darien Gap area along the Panama-Colombia border, the Center's National Security Fellow, Todd Bensman, conducted an exclusive interview with Director General Jorge Gobea, chief of Panama's National Border Service (SENAFRONT), and Edward Dolan, a former Homeland Security Investigations agent.

The interview confirmed that numerous U.S.-bound terror suspects have been apprehended in the region, with more expected to make their way to the U.S. border. In addition, Gobea said only a tiny fraction of migrants coming through the Darien can be screened because of the flood unleashed by the Biden-Harris border policies. An excerpt from Bensman's interviews is provided below:
Asked to comment about SENAFRONT’s reported August arrest of three Afghan terror suspects ([link removed]) whose biometrics were taken and checked at a Darien Province immigrant reception station (described in the SENAFRONT tweet below), Gobea responded that the report was “not fake”.
“We did take and profile a few members of a terrorist cell from … Afghanistan,” he said. “We linked and we profiled them to be members of an active cell. They were members of a Salafist group, and they had links with different activities.”
But then Gobea added that this was far from a one-off.
“We have many stories of that. We don’t just have one. We have many stories of that, from Somalia, from Yemen … from Syria, from Africa.”
Gobea would not put a number on the “many stories”.
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"Clearly, however, many ["active terrorist" migrants] are too long gone and don’t get caught until they hit the American border, if ever. On August 5, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee issued an interim report ([link removed]) revealing that since January 2021, CPB released into the United States “at least” 99 border-crossing immigrants who were on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist database.
The entire multinational counterterrorism net now stands reduced in capability, and the bad guys know it, Dolan said.
“If you’re a terrorist,” he said. “this is how you’re going to come to the United States.”

Bensman's full piece detailing the interviews can be found here ([link removed]) .

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