“It needs to happen,” incoming border czar Tom Homan told NBC News. “Shutting down the Darien Gap is going to protect our national security. It’s going to save thousands of lives.

A US-backed campaign between Panama and Colombia aims to stop migrants crossing the Darién Gap from South into Central ... is a break in the Pan-American Highway, the network of roads that ...

The number of migrants traversing the treacherous Darien Gap in the hopes of making it to the United States has plummeted as Panama’s right-wing President José Raúl Mulino cracks down on the ...

The number of migrants and asylum seekers traversing the Darien Gap — the treacherous strip of jungle connecting South and North America — has fallen by nearly 41 percent in the last year.