Migration to the US by trailing gap Darién Plummets 99%

By Samantha KammanChristian Post Reporter Friday, March 14, 2025

Migrants trying to reach the United States through the dangerous jungles of Darién gap have decreased by 99%, a dramatic decline that the White House has celebrated in the praise of Trump’s immigration policies.

Conformable Migración PanamaAn immigration and naturalization service in Panama, only 408 migrants passed the Darién gap to Panama in February, the lowest since then November 2020when 365 traveled the way during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The total 408 decreased compared to those over 37,000 reported in February last year and 24,000 in February 2023.

In January, 2,229 migrants passed the Darién gap in Panama in Colombia. For the year 2023, Migración Panama Joined A total of 520,085 cases of irregular traffic through the Darién gap. In 2024, the Panama Agency Joined A total of 302,203 cases of irregular transit through the region.

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The Press Secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt mentioned Decreased Darién Gap traffic in a press release.

“America returns back,” the press secretary said.

Darién Gap is a 60 -mile river at the border between Colombia and Panama, and those traveling through it are usually migrants who want to reach the United States. The journey through the Darién gap is considered dangerous, not only because of the wild life and the hard ground, but also from the presence of criminal gangs that expose migrants to violence and sexual aggression.

That Bloomberg Reported on Monday, the decline of traffic through the Darién gap follows the administration of President Panama, José Raúl Mulino, closing several ways from the jungle and increasing the security patrols in September.

In recent months there has been a marked decrease in traffic on the US south border. In the first month of Trump’s second presidents, the monthly border meetings between law enforcement and migrants have reached the smallest point in three years, according to DATA from Customs and American border protection.

In February 2025, there were 11,709 meetings between illegal immigrants who want to enter the country and the law enforcement officials. There were 61,465 meetings in January and 96,035 meetings registered in December 2024, the last month of the Biden Administration.

President Trump promised to collapse from immigration and improve border security, which includes increasing deportations of illegal immigrants.

High officials with the Department of Inner Security and US immigration and customs execution told reporters on a press call on Wednesday that ICE arrested over 32,000 illegal migrants in the first 50 days after Trump’s second term.

“I want to be clear that the ice arrests from the first 50 days of President Trump’s administration surpass those under the Biden Administration,” said the interim director of ICE, Todd Lyons, during the call, according to the call. Washington’s examiner. “Yesterday, ice arrests have exceeded all the big criminal arrests last year. Dubbing ice arrests is just the beginning.”

The 32,000 arrested from January 20 included 14,111 convicted criminals, according to Lyons. Another 9,980 had pending criminal charges, 1,155 were suspects of the band and another 8,718 had other immigration violations. The interim ice director said that 8,718 “violated the law of immigration in the US, which is also a crime.”

“We have concluded Catch (and) release and returned ICE in its basic mission, which arrests the people who violate our law on immigration,” Lyons said. “Secretary Noem and I change ice culture to an action and responsibility.”

The ICE official said the agency is expected that the arrests and elimination numbers will increase throughout the current presidential administration.

Earlier this week, CBP and DHS announced a new feature through the CBP Home application that allows illegal migrants or foreigners whose freedom has been revoked to inform the US government about their intention to leave the country.

The self-deposit function of the application is part of a $ 200 million advertising campaign at national and international level asking for illegal immigrants to leave the US or to face deportation, according to a month statement from DHS.

“The Biden Administration has exploited the CBP One application to allow more than 1 million aliens to enter the United States illegally,” said internal security secretary, Kristi Noem. “With the launch of the CBP Home app, we restore the integrity of our immigration system.”

“The CBP Home app offers the aliens to go now and self-deport, so it is possible to have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” she added. “If I do not, we will find them, we will deport them and they will never return.”