Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The woman said authorities were seizing the phones of migrants in the camp and effectively cutting them off. Migrants were from Asian nations, Russia, Afghanistan and Nepal, she said. The migrant said that people in the camp were having their personal freedoms restricted, and that migrants faced both poor conditions in the camp and a strict ...
There have been dramatic increases in the number of migrants from the world’s most populous countries: Between fiscal 2019 and 2023, the number of migrants from China and India grew more than ...
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 ...
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 Darién Gap at the Colombia–Panama border Map of the Darién Gap and the break in the Pan-American Highway between Yaviza, Panama, and Turbo, Colombia. The Darién Gap (UK: / ˈ d ɛər i ə n, ˈ d ær-/, [1] [2] US: / ˌ d ɛər i ˈ ɛ n, ˌ d ɑːr-, d ɑːr ˈ j ɛ n /, [1] [3] [4] Spanish: Tapón del Darién [taˈpon del daˈɾjen ...
An influx of Chinese migrants, facing China's economic uncertainty, are crossing the U.S.'s southern border.
BOGOTÁ, Colombia (AP) — Migrants bound for the U.S. are once again crossing the Darien Gap in large numbers, officials in Colombia said on Monday, after being stranded for much of last week in ...