Investigative journalist Laura Loomer is traveling to the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama for a week-long trip to document how illegal aliens and other dangerous groups utilize the only land path connecting Central and South America to get to North America.
The Darién Gap, which consists of more than 60 miles of dense rainforest, steep mountains, and vast swamps, is not only a passageway for migrants from South America, Loomer said, but a hotspot for Hamas and Hezbollah networks, drug cartels, and human trafficking groups.
“A lot of people don’t even know about the Darién Gap, and it’s one of the most dangerous crossways and passageways for these illegal aliens,” Loomer explained this week on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy. “There’s active Hamas and Hezbollah networks that are working with the cartels, there’s human trafficking networks, there’s drug cartels in the Darién Gap, and I’m going down there to help expose this because I think that the mainstream media should be doing their job and highlighting why President Trump’s America First policies are the solution to this invasion in our country, but sadly they aren’t.”
Loomer criticized the mainstream media’s lack of coverage of the illegal immigrant crisis beyond the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I also think that people have a very surface level understanding of the invasion because they only see, you know, the B roll on Fox News or CNN or occasional social media posts from influencers who go down to Eagle Pass or some of these more popular, well known border crossings where illegals are coming into the United States,” Loomer added.
In response to all-star panelist Crom Carmichael’s question regarding the low influx of illegal immigration under former President Donald Trump compared to the out-of-control influx under incumbent President Joe Biden, Loomer attributed it to the fact that the U.S. no longer has control of the Panama Canal.
“I don’t want to speak for President Trump on his policy initiatives going into his second term, but I do think that it would be wise for the next president of the United States to try to take back the Panama Canal because this is a national security threat,” Loomer explained. “And you see that the Chinese now, one of the things I’m going down there to expose, is the Chinese are sending a lot of these military aged men and they’re establishing these encampments in Panama, in the Darién Gap by the canal, and that poses a serious threat to the United States of America and our national security if we’re having our adversaries basically stockpile troops on the ground, weapons on the ground for the sake of amassing a foot soldier invasion of America through our open borders.”
“We do not control that canal, unfortunately, and it’s going to become an even more destabilized situation. There’s reports out recently about the Panamanian government teetering. It’s kind of a powder keg waiting to explode. I think it’s the most obvious example of how we can secure our borders if the United States were to regain control of the canal and also get this invasion that’s happening via the Darién Gap under control. So, you know, hopefully President Trump will be able to do more in addressing the invasion through Darién Gap and the passage of illegal aliens into our country via the Panama Canal once he’s reelected and that’s why I’m going down there to expose this,” Loomer added.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Laura Loomer” by Laura Loomer. Background Photo “Darién Gap on Pacific Coast of Panama” by David Broad. CC BY 3.0.
