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Colombian elected officials charging millions on packages to guide migrants toward US border, report says
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Colombian politicians, businessmen and elected leaders are charging millions through a lucrative foundation to move migrants across the Darien Gap and toward the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We have organized everything: the boatmen, the guides, the bag carriers," Darwin Garcia, an elected community board member and former town councilman in Acandi, a Colombian municipality at the entrance to the jungle, told the Times. Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
The migration business is run by board members like Garcia elected by the community. It operates through a registered nonprofit started by the board’s president and his family known as the New Light Darien Foundation, which manages the entire route from Acandí to the border with Panama, the Times reported.