Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico have started BUSING migrants north to move them on, sparking fears Biden’s record-breaking border crisis will get even worse

Central American countries have started busing migrants north, sparking fears that Joe Biden‘s record-breaking border crisis is deepening.

In just one week last month, more than 14,000 travelers were bused from Panama to Costa Rica – part of a new plan between the nations to funnel arrivals north.

The Costa Rican government has declared a national emergency due to the number of asylum seekers passing through the Central American nation – which has risen sharply.

Thousands of migrants have been emboldened by the bus programs adopted by Costa Rica and now places further north like Mexico and Honduras, who are also feeling the crisis.

The Biden administration is holding talks with the Latin American countries to stop the flow as a record 2.47million migrants were stopped at the US border in fiscal year 2023 – up from nearly 2.4million the year before. Many of the migrants are heading to the Democrat-run ‘sanctuary cities’ of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.

In comments to The New York Times Wednesday – as the number of crossings from Panama sits at just over 400,000 – the head of a nonprofit assisting migrants at a bus terminal in Costa Rica touted how the two countries were treating the situation.

‘The United States wants to contain the people,’ Dr. Marta Blanco, the executive director of the Cadena Foundation, told the newspaper.

‘This is to keep sending people, to just keep the flow going.’

But Biden administration officials who spoke to the paper off-the-record told a different story.

They claimed they have brought up concerns about the new bus plan behind closed doors with the governments of both Costa Rica and Panama – after a record 82,000 entered Panama from South America in September, all heading to the US.

Publicly, though, the political figures commended both countries – praising their politicians for collaborating through their own security and immigration concerns to pen the so-called ‘humanitarian’ plan.

On Wednesday – a little more than two months after Biden doled out $12million to Costa Rica to bolster immigration – the officials secretly said the new plan only incentivizes migrants to make the perilous journey, while also hampering the US.

The policies from Costa Rica and now Mexico and Honduras could only make the US front of the crisis worse, the unnamed officials told The Times.

Their counterparts in Central America, however, insisted otherwise – with several telling The Times the new policies only grant migrants are already set on making the journey a safer trip, hence its ‘humanitarian’ distinction.

‘This migration flow couldn’t be stopped, it can’t be prohibited, but it can be administered,’ said Jose Pablo Vindas, a Costa Rican migration police coordinator at Costa Rica’s massive bus terminal, which is actually a repurposed pencil factory.

‘It’s not a question of allowing, motivating or deterring this travel,’ the officer added.

‘It’s about giving safe conditions for the people who are doing it: because otherwise they would be exposed to trafficking or to hazardous conditions.’

As for the inherent danger of the route – a 66 roadless miles of dense, mountainous jungle and swamp filled with armed guerillas and drug traffickers in Panama – he’s not far off.

The crossing was once so treacherous that few dared to attempt it, but today, many migrants flood its dense jungles.

This year alone, crossings of the Darien Gap shot up to an estimated 500,000 – up from around 400,000 the year before and 200,000 in 2021. The Gap connects Central America to the South at the border between Panama and Colombia.

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