“It needs to happen,” incoming border czar Tom Homan told NBC News. “Shutting down the Darien Gap is going to protect our national security. It’s going to save thousands of lives.

The number of migrants and asylum seekers traversing the Darien Gap — the treacherous strip of jungle connecting South and North America — has fallen by nearly 41 percent in the last year.

PANAMA CITY, - Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier ...

More than 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, marking a 42% decrease compared to the record number who undertook the dangerous jungle journey from South America the previous ...

The Darien Gap is a stretch of dense, uninhabited wilderness between Panama and Colombia that migrants use to traverse Central and South America. Now, the man tapped to lead Donald Trump’s immigration ...

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – More than 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, marking a 42% decrease from the previous year, according to Panama’s migration authorities speaking to ...

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino is trying to stem the flow of migrants crossing the treacherous Darien Gap, a 70-mile stretch of undeveloped jungle near the Panama-Colombia border.

Over 300,000 migrants crossed the Darien Gap into Panama in 2024, 42% fewer than the record number who made the perilous jungle crossing from South America a year earlier, Panama’s migration ...