And the number of migrants trying to reach Central America has been steadily increasing.įrom South America to the United States, trying to stop yet another wave of migrants seems to be a losing battle. (Photo by PAUL RATJE / AFP) (Photo by PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images) Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty Imagesīiden admin to roll out plan to manage flow of Venezuelan migrantsįrom the beginning of the year through the end of September, the Coast Guard has detained 14 smugglers transporting 526 migrants, including children. Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano said that the migrants were crowded in an area controlled by the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) beneath the Del Rio International Bridge, which carries traffic across the Rio Grande river into Mexico. The mayor of Del Rio, Texas declared a state of emergency on September 17 after more than 10,000 undocumented migrants, many of them Haitians, poured into the border city in a fresh test of President Joe Biden's immigration policy. US Customs and Border Protection agents guard the entrance to the Del Rio International Bridge, which is closed temporarily after an influx of migrants, at the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas on September 17, 2021. Now we’re getting testimonies of people who have paid the smugglers as much as 4,000 dollars per person to be transported from San Andrés to Central America,” the captain said. “Originally, were charging between 1,000 and 1,500 dollars. This scene has been repeating itself with regularity around the Colombian San Andres Archipelago, located 775 kilometers (482 miles) northwest of mainland Colombia where the Colombian Coast Guard routinely intercepts boats loaded with migrants who pay smugglers to take them across the Caribbean.Īrriving in Central American countries like Nicaragua, the trip allows the migrants to avoid the perilous Darien Gap, a jungle region in Panama at the Colombian border that is also used by migrants trekking north with the hope of eventually reaching the United States.Ĭolombian Marine Corps Captain Octavio Gutiérrez, who serves in the San Andrés Archipelago, says migrants fly into the islands where they spend a night or two as they try to get in touch with smugglers. The footage was provided to CNN by the Colombian government. They are Venezuelan nationals, the Coast Guard later establishes.

Powerful flashlights reveal a 32-foot, single-engine boat, crowded with immigrants - some of them small children - lying on the floor of the vessel. In the almost complete darkness before midnight in the Caribbean Sea, a scream suddenly pierces the crash of the waves and wind.

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