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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 ...
Overall, numbers increased in the Darien Gap from 115,758 between 2010 and 2020 to 1.18 million in 2021-2024. There have been widespread concerns about nationals from Afghanistan and China in the US.
SEE MORE: More Chinese migrants take long journey to US border seeking asylum At another migrant encampment 10 minutes down the road, Scripps News met people from western Asia and southeast Europe ...
Mainland Chinese undocumented immigration through the Southwestern United States border is not a COVID-exclusive phenomenon. [37] Traversing the Darién Gap to reach Panama has been a COVID-inspired expedient. The China-Ecuador visa-free agreement gave rise to the rationale of making Ecuador the landing area for the runners. [38]
The young Chinese man looked lost and exhausted when Border Patrol agents left him at a transit station. Deng Guangsen, 28, had spent the last two months traveling to San Diego from the southern ...
The Darien Gap is a tangle of mountains, marshes and rainforest 30 miles wide and 100 miles long that is the only land bridge between South America and Panama. An estimated half-million U.S.-bound ...
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 ...
A record 520,000 migrants crossed the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap in 2023, more than double the number reported the year before, according to government ...