Migrant crossings through once-overrun Darien Gap plummet 99% under Trump’s border crackdown

Migrant crossings done nan once-overrun and dangerous Darien Gap person plummeted 99% nether President Trump’s crackdown connected forbidden immigration, The Post has learned.

Just 408 migrants were recorded traversing nan treacherous Panamanian jungle way successful February, compared to erstwhile crossings peaked astatine 37,166 successful February 2024 nether erstwhile President Joe Biden, according to information provided by nan Department of Homeland Security.

Before-and-after photos of nan Darien Gap show nan mini stream larboard of Lajas Blancas — inundated by hordes of migrants conscionable a twelvemonth agone — now sitting quiet arsenic crossings plummet.

Panamanian authorities were seeing an mean of 16,400 migrants making nan grueling trek each week astatine their highest successful 2022, according to DHS.

Massive tents antecedently packed pinch migrants now beryllium vacant, and a stream wherever migrants would transverse by ft is abnormally quiet, according to nan photos taken by nan Associated Press.

Just a fewer migrants from Venezuela, Angola and Nigeria were seen sleeping connected nan crushed of nan Lajas Blancas campy while being watched by cops.

And nan assistance groups person each left.

“Doctors Without Borders, nan Red Cross, nary 1 comes present anymore,” Venezuelan Hermanie Blanco, 33, who arrived successful Panama days aft Trump took office, told nan outlet.

“It’s deserted.”

Panama’s right-wing President José Raúl Mulino vowed to unopen down nan 70-mile agelong of jungle, and nan number of migrants crossing location plummeted by 40% past year.

Since Trump’s return to nan White House, migrant crossings on nan way — nan only onshore span betwixt South and Central America — person each but dried up pinch nan president’s separator shutdown and wide deportation effort.

“Effectively, nan separator pinch Darien is closed,” Mulino declared past month.