Migrants who traveled through the dangerous Darién Gap hit new highs in 2023, breaking records only just over halfway through the year, despite U.S. and international efforts.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez visits a village in Panama where thousands of migrants traveling through the U.S. pass through. crossings through a key, and highly dangerous, migration route surged in the first half of 2023, setting a new record and outpacing 2022, despite the efforts of the U.S. and other governments to slow the surge.
That is higher than the total for all of 2022, and a record pace of migration through the gap, the outlet reported.While Republicans have blamed the Biden administration for the record surge in numbers at the U.S.
"Recognizing our shared interest and responsibility to prevent the risk to human life, disrupt transnational criminal organizations and preserve the vital rainforest, the governments of Panama, Colombia and theintend to carry out a two-month coordinated campaign to address the serious humanitarian situation in the Darién," the statement said.
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