Slowing Migrant Flows in Colombia Dry Up Smuggling Profits

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Catholic groups help thousands of migrants returning to South America

PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica (OSV) — A few months ago Albeny Gutierrez crossed the Darién Gap on his way to the United States, where he planned to ask for asylum and start a new life.  Now the bus driver from Venezuela is once again faced with the prospect of crossing the dangerous rainforest, where many migrants have been assaulted by thieves, as he heads back toward South America. Thousands of migrants are heading back to South America after new U.…

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ThePatriotLight - Darien jungle no longer migration corridor to US, Panama says

ThePatriotLight - The treacherous Darien jungle between Colombia and Panama is no longer a migratory corridor for US-bound migrants, Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino said Thursday. His comments follow a plunge in the number of migrants heading north from South America due to US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. “We have ended a movement that began in 2016,” when overland migration between South and Central America increased si…

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The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, announced this Thursday the closure of the migratory centers that has been part of the route of the Tapón del Darién, the jungle zone that have crossed more than a million immigrants since 2016. Mulino assures that the transit of people going to the United States has decreased by 98%. The massive deportations ordered by Donald Trump have deterred many immigrants, who even make the way back to their coun…

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The president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, announced the closure of the migration centers in the Darién, due to the fall of 98% of the flow.

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Slowing Migrant Flows in Colombia Dry Up Smuggling Profits

Slowing Migrant Flows in Colombia Dry Up Smuggling Profits Migrant smuggling dynamics in northern Colombia are shifting in response to a US immigration crackdown, potentially disrupting a lucrative revenue stream for the powerful crime group known as the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia – AGC).The number of migrants crossing the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama plummeted to just over a dozen p…

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The president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo de León, inaugurated on Wednesday a center of care for migrants deported in the city of Tecún Umán, bordering Mexico, where it is intended to care for people who are returned via land from the neighboring country.Arévalo de León indicated that this new space of care has the purpose, “to receive with dignity the connationals who return home.”The center of Guatemala, with the capacity to receive 65 peop…