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The mainstream press’s dark warnings about a flood of migrants is underpinned by a staggering ignorance about where asylum-seekers are coming from—and why they’re fleeing for their lives.

The Americas marked a 23 percent jump in cases last week, though most cases were recorded in the US and Canada.

April 23, 2021 Mexican drug cartels and cartel-associated smuggling networks are now bringing so many illegal immigrants into the United States that they’re putting out ads on TikTok, targeting American teenagers in South Texas with offers of thousands in cash to ferry migrants past U.S. checkpoints just north of the border. This week Fox News reported on the scheme, including screenshots of TikTok ads offering as much as $3,500 cash for a single trip. One ad reads, “Got another 6 left, alr...