Panama Predicts 200,000 Fewer Darien Gap Crossings Compared To 2023
An estimated 320,000 people are expected to traverse Panama's Darien jungle by the end of 2024, Public Security Minister Frank Abrego said Thursday -- a significant reduction in migrants compared to ...
Hundreds of thousands of refugees per year are now crossing the Darién Gap, the green gateway to the US
Hundreds of thousands of refugees per year make the dangerous trek through the jungle toward Central America and often to the ...
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Biden-Harris open border is destroying an indigenous tribe’s land and way of life
Members of the Embera-Wounnaan tribe taking migrants on a boat through the Darien Gap in Panama. Todd Bensman METETI, Panama ...
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Migrants crossing through the Darien Gap drop sharply as Panama expands crackdown
Fewer than a quarter million had gone through the jungle path by late August, compared to over half a million in all of 2023 ...
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Panama starts deporting migrants apprehended at the Darien Gap through U.S.-funded flights
Panamanian authorities on Tuesday began conducting U.S.-funded deportation flights for migrants apprehended at the Darien Gap ...
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From Mazar to Manhattan: How a young couple escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan
Deep in the jungle in Panama’s infamous Darien Gap, a lawyer and a dentist from Afghanistan kept pushing. With 77-pound packs ...
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Seitz at the deadly Darien Gap: 'You could see the suffering in their faces'
Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, recently spoke with OSV News following his return from the 10th Meeting of Bishops and Migration Pastoral Agents of North America, Central America and the ...
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Fewer migrants risk Darién Gap following Panama crackdown
Crossings of undocumented migrants across the southern US border have plunged since President Joe Biden’s executive order in ...
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'We can now understand just how bad it is': 70 miles in the Darien Gap
The United Nations estimates that roughly 800-thousand people may attempt to cross the Darien Gap this year alone. Many of them are children. IE 11 is not supported.
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Panama deports 29 Colombian migrants from Darien Gap under US deal
Panama has deported 29 Colombians with alleged criminal records who had entered the country through the inhospitable Darien Gap, applying for the first time a deal on migrant repatriations signed ...