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5 min readIn the Canary Islands, a man in a blue vest identified himself as the only International Organization for Migration worker on the entire island chain. Over lunch, he told Anthony Rubin something remarkable: his job was to interview migrants who arrived by boat, but he only reported the smuggling groups that ripped people off and never delivered them. The groups that actually succeeded in smuggling people into Europe? He left those alone. Rubin, who filmed the encounter for his documentary, still kicks himself for not getting that admission on camera—but the moment captures the core paradox at the heart of the migration crisis unfolding across the West.
The Atlantic Route and the Facilitation Machine
Anthony Rubin, along with his brother Joshua, runs the investigative outlet Muckraker.com. Their latest documentary follows the West African migration route from Mauritania to the Canary Islands, then through mainland Spain, France, and into the United Kingdom. This is one of three major routes into Europe—the others being the Mediterranean route (from Tunisia to Italy) and the overland route (through Turkey into Greece). Once inside the European Union, internal borders are essentially open.
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Bret Weinstein speaks with Anthony Rubin on the subject of mass migration into Europe and the United States: who facilitates it, who profits from it, and why the mainstream press has left two brothers with cameras to document it. More from this podcast
Find Muckraker on X at https://x.com/realmuckraker and watch his documentary on Youtube at https://youtu.be/svJUbYFCRPc
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Mentioned in this episode:
Replacing Europe: Following the World's Deadliest Migration Route - FULL DOCUMENTARY https://youtu.be/svJUbYFCRPc
Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (UN) https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda
Migration and the 2030 Agenda: A Guide for Practitioners (IOM) https://migrationdataportal.org/tool/migration-and-2030-agenda-guide-practitioners
International Organization for Migration (IOM) https://www.iom.int
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency https://www.unhcr.org
HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) https://hias.org
Norwegian Refugee Council https://www.nrc.no
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies https://www.ifrc.org
Open Society Foundations https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 From Mauritania to the English Channel
00:02:00 Three Routes Into Europe
00:03:47 Sponsor: Caraway
00:05:08 Sponsor: Ridge
00:06:19 Migration or Invasion?
00:08:15 Mauritania: Nothing to Lose
00:10:11 The UN at the Top
00:11:46 Rape Kits for the Darién Gap
00:14:13 Migration as an Inherent Good
00:15:50 Agenda 2030 & "Agents of Development"
00:17:22 Who Profits When the Flow Stops?