A boat with 19 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia and two crew sank off Panama, border police in charge of the rescue operation said Saturday.

Venezuelan migrants board boats to Colombia on Panama's Caribbean coastal island of Gardi Sugdub, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after turning back from southern Mexico where they gave up hopes of

They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown

So far, Costa Rica has opened its borders, receiving one flight of 200 deportees from Central Asia and India. And Panama has so far received at least three flights of deportees, with plans to first house migrants at hotels before sending them to camps near the Darién Gap,

The Holland America Line cruise ship left Port Everglades on Feb. 2 and traveled through the Caribbean, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica over 12 days.

They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S.

A boat carrying 19 migrants, part of a “reverse flow” of migrants who once hoped to reach the United States, capsized off Caribbean coast of Panama

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Tim Marshall on the relentless flow of migrants struggling through the treacherous jungle of the Darién Gap, desperate to reach the USA

Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported by the United States, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries.

The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.

A boat with 19 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia and two crew sank off Panama, border police in charge of the rescue operation said Saturday.