19,000 migrants amassed in Colombia near Panama border: Official

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BOGOTA: Some 19,000 migrants, mainly Haitians, are amassed on the north coast of Colombia, from where they hope to cross to Panama and find a route to the United States, an official in Bogota said on Wednesday (Sep 22). Some have been stranded for weeks in the coastal town of Necocli in the northweste

BOGOTA: Some 19,000 migrants, mainly Haitians, are amassed on the north coast of Colombia, from where they hope to cross to Panama and find a route to the United States, an official in Bogota said on Wednesday .

He reported that a mission"evaluating the migrant crisis" at Necocli - a village of 45,000 people - counted some 19,000 undocumented migrants there.Haitians form a significant portion of the tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived at the border between Mexico and the United States in recent months, posing a headache for US President Joe Biden's administration.

Once across, the migrants start, on foot, the dangerous trek from Acandi through the Darien jungle, where they battle snakes, steep ravines, swollen rivers, tropical downpours and criminals often linked to drug trafficking. Those with pending administrative or judicial processes - refugee applications, for example, or giving testimony against human traffickers - can be held at a migrant reception centre for weeks or months.

 

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