Video: How SIAs Reach the U.S. Through South and Central America

By Todd Bensman on December 17, 2018PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica — An unusual partnership has arisen between Panama and Costa Rica for handling thousands of migrants constantly funneled through this border town on their way to the American southern border. Geographically, Panama and Costa Rica present an almost unavoidable leg of the long but quite achievable trip to America. Tens of thousands of non-Spanish-speaking migrants, known in U.S. homeland security circles nowadays as “extra-continentals”, from countries like Iran and Afghanistan (also known as Special Interest Aliens) have no choice but to cross through Panama once they depart initial landing zones in South America.