The migration issue is in the news again. Criminal groups such as El Tren de Aragua from Venezuela, alleged members of ISIS from Tajikistan and common criminals without prior registration have been turning up on America's doorstep.

Now there is a new concern: the opening of a dangerous door to the Taliban in Central America.

Nicaragua's dictatorship announced last Friday the opening of diplomatic relations with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, governed by the Taliban since 2021. The Sandinista regime is the only country in the Americas to appoint an ambassador to the Taliban regime, and perhaps the second worldwide to offer this level of diplomatic recognition. (China was the first.)

The Afghan tyranny has celebrated its new diplomatic relations with the Central American country and says that it will “expand” bilateral ties. We must not forget that Nicaragua is a key player in the promotion of illegal migration to the U.S. In the last 12 months, it has received more than 1,000 flights with migrants from Libya, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and a dozen countries with totalitarian or terrorist regimes. In that same line, Afghanistan could even receive a free visa program, as many of these nations have.

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