Posted on 09/07/2023 12:19:01 PM PDT by SJackson
Record numbers of children are migrating across Latin America and the Caribbean with more than 60,000 children risking life and limb to cross the treacherous Darién Gap jungle pass this year, according to a new Unicef report.
Sounding the alarm over the rising number of youngsters on the move, the UN’s children’s agency said at least 92 migrant children had died or gone missing last year – more than any other year since 2014.
Children make up 13% of the world’s migrant population but 25% in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The report’s lead author, Christopher Tidey, said a confluence of factors were driving the exodus, including climate change, drug-related violence and the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, which had pushed already vulnerable families to breaking point.
Perhaps nowhere are the risks more severe than the Darién Gap, a remote rainforest bandit country between Colombia and Panama that is the only land route between South and Central America.
The number of people making the perilous footslog through that roadless jungle has soared in the past three years, as migrants from countries as far apart as Afghanistan, China, Eritrea and Haiti attempt to reach the US.
Unicef said about 133,000 people crossed the Darién in 2021 – at least 29,000 them children. In 2022, that figure almost doubled, with about 250,000 people braving the route, including an estimated 40,000 children, 600 of them unaccompanied.
This year, yet another Darién record will be set, with more than 250,000 people crossing between January and August, including more than 60,000 children. Aid groups have warned they cannot cope.
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Thank you George, Bill, George, Barack.
If only the United States had a military that could stop this.
SEND THEM BACK HOME TO THEIR ORIGIN COUNTRIES.
Unicef wants the new 7 year old whores to be safe until they get to the United States...
I’m charmed. /s
The US has a new facility near the Darien gap to help process the illegals on their way north. Mayorkas was down there inspecting the new facility. They, Mayorkas and Biden are financing this invasion.
As appalling as this may seem there are good reasons to expect it to continue. The NWO child sex rings are always looking for fresh meat.
The US government won’t despite it being their job. I wonder why states or cities don’t. Are you listening Mayor Adams. At this point I suspect there are those who’d be happy to have a plane ride. Most won’t, but it would be cost effective for those who do.
Children are not risking their lives. Their handlers are.
Correct. And they don’t care about “The Children”.
THIS has been going on for over 5 years.
SLOW to discover the truth???
Don’t come
“The US has a new facility near the Darien gap to help process the illegals on their way north. Mayorkas was down there inspecting the new facility. They, Mayorkas and Biden are financing this invasion.”
Perhaps so, but all that matters to me is UKRAINE and being sure that Biden and Son can keep their income stream flowing.
So stop sounding like a Putin Puppet and trying to DEFLECT our attention from something of little importance to the US, which is the DNC Repopulation Program.
“ So stop sounding like a Putin Puppet and trying to DEFLECT our attention from something of little importance to the US, which is the DNC Repopulation Program.”
You left off the sarcasm tag!
Ukraine is a money laundering fraud scheme.
These liberal rats are gonna get us all tossed in an indoctrination camp!
You got it - more powerful without the /Sarc tag. Makes people wonder if I’m serious - but I always leave a hook in these posts, to make sure that everyone, other than the Neocon Cheerleaders, understand what I meant.
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