Friday, March 13

The treacherous migrant route of Darien Gap to the United States has become a complete ghost city following the fierce offensive of the Trump administration in illegal immigration, the photo show before and after.

The recently taken images show the small port of the Panamano River of Blancas Lajas, invaded with a crush of migrants only one year ago, now essentially empty.

Loads in a temporary camp on the same Blancas Lajas court, Panama, June 28, 2024. AP
A court is empty in Blancas Lajas, Panama, Sunday, April 6, 2025, where migrants used to camp after crossing Darien’s gap on his trip north to the United States. AP

Huge tents that were full of families that take over asylum are now vacancies, while a river section where more than a thousand migrants would try to cross every day is also naked, according to the photos.

The dropout occurs after the crosses through the 70 mile section of the jungle, the only land bridge between the south and central America-Surged to register maximums in 2023 when more than 500,000 people tried the exhausting walk.

The number of migrants who are going through the treacherous route collapsed by 40% last year when the president of the right of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, promised to take energetic measures.

Migrants arrive at Lajas Blancas, Panama, after walking through Darien’s gap from Colombia in the hope of reaching the United States, on September 26, 2024. AP
The edge of the empty river where hundreds of migrants used to disembark daily, after crossing Darien’s gap on his trip to the north of the United States, in Blancas Lajas, Panama, Sunday, April 6, 2025. AP

Now, in a few months since Trump Toke’s office, the route has been essentially eradicated.

“Indeed, the border with Darien is closed. The problem we had white eliminated in slabs,” Mulino said last month.

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Olivia White

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