Over the past several years, we’ve discussed scores of times the Darién Gap in Panama, the 60-odd-mile strip of jungle illegal migrants have to travel on their way to Central America, Mexico, and their ultimate destination — the US border.
The Panama government estimates that between 2021-2024, the years of the Biden administration, a total of 1.18 million illegal migrants crossed through the Gap on their way north. What’s more, at least 760,000 — or 64 percent — of those migrants were citizens of nations the US government considers of “special interest” from a national security perspective.
So what is the Gap like nowadays, when once it teemed with tens of thousands of migrants anxious to get to the unguarded US border in the north?
According to data from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Panama’s National Migration Service, the jungle is quiet as a church mouse. The data show that in the month of June, only 10 migrants traveled the Gap, an astonishing drop from the route’s peak, in August 2023. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Thursday:
In Panama’s Darien Gap, migrants are now turning BACK before they even reach our border— only 10 migrants crossed in June. This is more than a 99.98% drop from the Biden high when 82,000 illegal aliens crossed in a single month. The world is hearing our message that America’s borders are closed to lawbreakers. Thanks to President Trump and Secretary Noem, we have the most secure border in American history.
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