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The U.S. is seeing a big increase in Chinese immigrants arriving using a relatively new and perilous route through Panama’s Darién Gap jungle, thanks in part to social media posts and videos ...
Many migrants from China come to the U.S. through the Darien Gap, a stretch of jungle between Colombia and Panama they cross on their way north. Instead, she took a boat from the Bahamas, she said.
Associated Press, Takeaways from AP’s reporting on Chinese migrants who traverse the Darién Gap to reach the US, Oct. 30, 2023 BBC, Fleeing China's Covid lockdowns for the US - through a ...
The Chinese diaspora in Latin and South America, as in North America, has existed since the 19th century owing to labour shortages in the Americas. [12] Mexico, in particular, encouraged Chinese immigration, signing a commercial treaty in 1899 that allowed Chinese citizens to run enterprises in Mexico, some of which would become involved in people smuggling. [13]
The camp, located near a small town known as San Vicente, Metetí, was originally constructed as a migrant reception center built to address the flow of hundreds of thousands of migrants traveling north through the Darien Gap in recent years. Though much of that traffic north has since petered off.
Now, migrants like her are adjusting to a new and uncertain reality. Many remain determined to reach the U.S. through more dangerous means, riding freight trains, hiring smugglers, and dodging ...
The Pan-American Highway is a system of roads measuring about 30,000 km (19,000 mi) [14] in length that runs north–south through the entirety of North, Central and South America, with the sole exception of a 106 km (66 mi) stretch of marshland and mountains between Panama and Colombia known as the Darién Gap.
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 ...