The Trump administration's crackdown on migration has ended the massive flow of people heading north through a treacherous ...

THE face of US President Donald Trump flashes on the flat screen TV that Luis Olea bought with the money he earned ferrying ...

A little more than a year ago, the small Panamanian river port of Lajas Blancas was filled with a crush of people trying to make their way to the United States.

Two years ago, 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 ...

Before-and-after photos of the Darien Gap show the small river port of Lajas ... and the number of migrants crossing there plummeted by 40% last year. Since Trump’s return to the White House ...

Smugglers living along key migration routes thrived off the U.S. border crisis, but are now left with next to no ...

Crowds of illegal immigrants who trekked through the vast jungle region between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap ...

The main passageway that migrants from as far away as China use to funnel into Central America for their march to America’s ...

The riverbank where hundreds of migrants used to disembark daily, after crossing the Darien Gap on their journey north to the United States, in Lajas Blancas, Panama, April 6, 2025. Credit ...

Fleeing economic crisis and political turmoil in her home country, she once hoped to seek asylum in the U.S. but decided after crossing the Darien Gap that she would try to seek refuge in Panama ...