Politicians and other human traffic smugglers in Colombia charge a minimum of $170 a head, not to reach the US, but simply to get through the Colombian jungle on route to Panama. And that's just for a guide. The all inclusive package is $500 or more.

The Math

$170 * 360,000 = $61,200,000

$500 * 360,000 = $180,000,000

The Colombian politicians and helpers have made somewhere between $61 million and $180 million this year selling services that the Biden administration vowed to end.

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"We have organized everything: the boatmen, the guides, the bag carriers," said Darwin García, an elected community board member and former town councilman in Acandí, a Colombian municipality at the entrance to the jungle.

Now, Mr. García's younger brother, Luis Fernando Martínez, the head of a local tourism association, is a leading candidate for mayor of Acandí — defending the migration business as the only profitable industry in a place that "didn't have a defined economy before."

More than 360,000 people have already crossed the jungle in 2023, according to the Panamanian government, surpassing last year's almost unthinkable record of nearly 250,000.