Immigrants who once flooded the US southern border under the Biden Harris administration have used Darien Gap to return home or travel to other foreign countries instead of heading to the US.

The border crisis, which became a major issue during the campaign for both former President Joe Biden and former vice president Kamala Harris, saw record-breaking encounters, and officials estimate the total. 10.8 million This is my first encounter since 2021. With the new administration tightening its immigration policy, immigration is reportedly in a “reserve flow,” and they will return home by traversing the Darien Gap-like route. According to To the Associated Press.

One major route used to travel to the US southern border, the Darien Gap (a dense jungle region), is now being used by immigrants to escape the US border in Trump’s efforts to secure it. It is said that there is. Smugglers are charging between $200 and $250 per person to transport people through this “reverse flow,” including minors, according to AP News.

In Trump’s first month at the White House, both the US-Mexican border and international intersections became quiet, indicating a sharp decline in illegal immigrant encounters. Since taking office, Trump has aimed to end illegal immigrant taxpayer-funded benefits, designate cartels and other organizations as foreign terrorist groups, and declare a national emergency at the tropical border. A series of administrative orders have been signed.

For many years, Darien Gap has been a dangerous passage for illegal immigrants as organized crime and smugglers make $14 million a day. Spanning 40 miles wide and 100 miles long between Panama and Colombia, more than 500,000 migrants passed the Darien Gap in 2023, contributing to record-breaking encounters at the US-Mexico border that year I did.

However, in July 2024, Panama’s border department, which serves as a border patrol for the country’s version, reported a 9,000-dollar decline in intersections from Colombia compared to the same period last year, resulting in illegal migration through Darien. We praise the efforts to reduce the number. gap. (Related: PAM Bondi vows to indict FBI agents and government officials who leak information about ice attacks)

In addition to his executive order, Trump also encouraged Tom Homan of the border and Christa Noem of the Department of Homeland Security to arrest “criminal aliens,” including rapists and murderers. was given the authority to instruct.

But not all immigrants are back home despite stricter border crackdowns, according to Associated Press News. Some are heading to other countries.

“There’s no way back to Venezuela. There are many of us who don’t want to go back. They go to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia – just like before,” says a woman waiting to board a boat through Darien Gap. Celia Alcala told the outlet.

Since Trump took office, the president has been pushing for a massive deportation campaign to fulfill his campaign promises to deal with the border crisis. One of his first actions was shutdown CBP for one app. According to CBS News, the app, which gained popularity under Biden, allowed an estimated 166 million asylum seekers to secure appointments with US immigration officers over the past two years .

“When Trump arrived and removed the application (CBP One), all our hopes rose in smoke,” 36-year-old Venezuela’s Cara Castillo, who traveled with her sister, told AP News.

With massive deportation underway, it remains unclear exactly how many illegal immigrants have been permitted to pass the tropical border under the Biden-Harris administration. However, NOEM estimated at Fox News that hundreds of thousands of criminal immigrants have enlisted in the United States over the past four years, including thousands of gang-connected people.

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