Dan Gooding is a Newsweek reporter based in New York City. His focus is reporting on immigration and border security. He has covered immigration issues extensively, including the root causes of ...

Migrant crossings through the once-overrun and dangerous Darien Gap have plummeted 99% under President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, The Post has learned. Just 408 migrants were ...

PUERTO CARTÍ, Panama — They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: Seek asylum in the U.S ...

In the last year-and-a-half, almost 700,000 people crossed the Darién Gap, a swampy jungle at the Colombia-Panama border, on their journey north, often to the United States. During their journey ...

Panama's President José Raúl Mulino is trying to stem the flow of migrants crossing the treacherous Darien Gap, a 70-mile stretch of undeveloped jungle near the Panama-Colombia border.

The map below shows the countries with the highest ... large number of those making their way through the jungle of the Darien Gap were children. In the first four months of the year, 30,000 ...