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Darien Gap closed: Trump crackdown silences deadly migrant route
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May 1, 2025
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10:23Now PlayingMigrant crossings into the US are at their lowest level since records began 25 years ago, following the Trump administration's crackdown.
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In 2023 Channel 4 News accompanied a group of migrants on a perilous journey across the Darien Gap - a 60-mile stretch of thick rainforest that separates Colombia from Panama.
The only land crossing between South and North America, thousands of migrants braved the perilous route every day, hoping to reach the US - more than a million crossed in just three years.
But now few are making the journey, instead, waves of migrants are heading back in the opposite direction.
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