Matias Delacroix

Venezuelan Mariela Gomez holds her son Mathias as they boat to shore after arriving on a larger cargo vessel in Jaque, on Panama’s Pacific coast, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, during their journey south after giving up on reaching the United States. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Venezuelans in ‘reverse migration’ pushed to new perils in effort to return home

September 23, 2025 at 8:54 a.m.

Over 14,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have returned to South America since Trump’s immigration crackdown began.

Venezuelan migrant Naomi Diaz sits on a boat departing from Panama’s Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Migrants are returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by President Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ‘ black hole’ for migrants and deportees from US, observers warn

February 28, 2025 at 8:31 a.m.

Costa Rica and Panama have received hundreds of deportees from various nations sent by the United States.

Luis Sanchez, center, sits with other Venezuelan migrants on a boat leaving Gardi Sugdub on Panama’s Caribbean coast, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after giving up hopes of reaching the U.S. while in southern Mexico amid President Trump’s crackdown on migration. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning

February 23, 2025 at 4:47 p.m.

Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of Venezuela and Colombia – have given up after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on asylum, and are returning to the...

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