https://www.cbsnews.com/news/record-migrant-crossings-darien-jungle-unsustainable-crisis/
Record migrant crossings along Darién
jungle are creating an "unsustainable
crisis," Colombian ambassador says
CBS News, by Camilo Montoya-Galvez & Luis Giraldo
Posted By: NorthernDog, 10/6/2023 7:23:27 PM
Washington — The unprecedented flow of tens of thousands of U.S.-bound migrants crossing Panama's treacherous Darién Gap jungle each month is "an unsustainable crisis," Colombia's ambassador to the U.S. told CBS News on Friday. (Snip) The flow of migration along the largely ungoverned Panama-Colombia border has fueled unprecedented levels of Venezuelan arrivals along the U.S. southern border, where American officials processed roughly 50,000 Venezuelan migrants in September alone, an all-time high. "Irregular migration through the Darién Gap is indeed an unsustainable crisis that poses serious safety risks to all who attempt the trip — that is why Colombia, and the