Posted on 09/03/2025 2:51:21 AM PDT by Libloather
A new report reveals that more than 14,000 migrants who had hoped to cross into the United States have turned back and reversed course due to the Trump administration's hardline border enforcement policies.
The new phenomenon, referred to as "reverse flow" migration, has mainly impacted migrants fleeing the economic and political turmoil in Venezuela and who had been moving north through Central America toward the U.S.
Since 2017, around 8 million people have fled the political crisis in Venezuela.
The report, published by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica with the support of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that northward migration had plummeted by 97% this year.
"It’s time to go back — the American dream wasn’t like this," one migrant said, per the report.
The report links the reversal to President Donald Trump's border policies, with 46% of migrants citing policy changes and 49% saying they could not enter the U.S. Another 34% ran out of resources and 17% feared detention or deportation.
Migration through the treacherous Darién Gap on the border of Colombia and Panama peaked in 2023 when more than half a million migrants crossed.
The report also blames U.S. financial reductions for drying up humanitarian aid. As a result, NGOs and U.N. agencies that were filling protection gaps in places like the Darién Gap and along return routes had to shut down or scale back operations.
Additionally, tougher transit restrictions in Panama mean the traditional pipeline toward the U.S. is nearly shut.
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I voted for “Reverse flow”
Great news
Asylum/refugee is all total bullSchiff scam.
These are not Jews fleeing Nazi Germany
This is intentional EU/US population replacement by world rulers.
EU is doomed. US is slowed for now..
The report “blames,” these elites and progressives are just deep evil.
I see the UN never bothers to “blame” the counties the would-be illegal immigrants are running from for being miserable crabholes of socialist oppression.
In truth yes, these wanna-be world “rulers” desire to replace free people with an ignorant slave class for their comfort and lust of control / power. A class that would be incapable of thinking about revolt and only quietly work for them and die at their command.
“...It’s time to go back — the American dream wasn’t like this...”
When did the American Dream ever mean illegal immigration? You can ALWAYS try to come here LEGALLY!
The fact is, these “immigrants” are ALL freeloading parasites who just want to jump in front of the line. The exact type of character we don’t need or want.
So enforcing our laws
is “hardline border enforcement policies”?
BTTT
“’the American dream wasn’t like this,’ one migrant said”
The American Dream is for Americans. GTFO already.
“You can ALWAYS try to come here LEGALLY!”
Even that has to stop, or be severely cut back.
Legal immigration is bad too. It all needs to stop .
i now worry about 600,000 chinese spies more than these other so called immigrants
“The report also blames U.S. financial reductions for drying up humanitarian aid. As a result, NGOs and U.N. agencies that were filling protection gaps in places like the Darién Gap and along return routes had to shut down or scale back operations.”
IOW, our tax dollars have been going to NGOs and the UN to finance an invasion of our borders by illegal immigrants.
"It’s time to go back — the American dream wasn’t like this," one migrant said
When did the American Dream become breaking and entering?
It’s the U.N.’s job to find a third world Marxist country for freeloaders who will take them in. We’ve got way too many already. The U.N. made America the land of the freeloaders.
His "dream" is our nightmare. Their "dream" is to invade America and have working Americans pay for wetback's housing, medical, food, beer, movies....
Great news if you believe the UN.
I wouldn’t.
ALL immigration should be paused for decades. ALL illegals need to be deported to never return.
MAGA.
Let the rest of the world learn how to live without being parasitic on the US Taxpayer one way or another.
This creates problems for them??? Tough ****.
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