The number of migrants traversing Panama’s perilous Darién Gap fell in February to its lowest number since November 2020.
“The decline is the latest sign that fewer migrants from South America are risking the treacherous, 2,600-mile journey north to the U.S. border in the early days of President [Donald] Trump’s immigration crackdown,” Axios reported.
According to statistics published by Migración Panama, the agency that tracks migration through the region, only 408 migrants traveled northward through the Darién Gap in February.
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That was the fewest seen since Nov. 2020 during the height of the pandemic, when only 365 traveled the route. At the time, the U.S. was turning away migrants at the border based on the national health emergency Trump instituted.
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