The White House has unveiled measures aimed at averting a political crisis as tens of thousands of migrants lured by the end of Covid-era restrictions prepare to try to cross into the United States in the weeks ahead.
Panama’s security ministry said that the number of people arriving at the Darien Gap, its border crossing with Colombia, had jumped. Last month 40,297 people made the crossing, and this month 16,246 have arrived. Both figures are well up on the same period last year.
They are expected to join an estimated 150,000 people in northern Mexico intending to enter the US after legislation, known as Title 42, expires on Thursday. The measure was introduced by the Trump administration as an emergency response to the pandemic. It
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