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REVEALED: The dangerous route 19,000 mostly Haitian migrants will be take from Colombia as they head to the US border: Nine bodies are found in Panama jungle after heavy rains swept them away

  Up to 19,000 mostly migrants, mostly from Haiti, are congregating in northern Colombia as they wait to cross the Gulf of Uraba by boat to ...

 Up to 19,000 mostly migrants, mostly from Haiti, are congregating in northern Colombia as they wait to cross the Gulf of Uraba by boat to Acandi where they will take a dangerous route on their way to the United States border.  

Nine migrants have been found dead, including one child, in the Darien Gap after heavy rainfall swept them away, adding to a total of 41 bodies found in the dangerous jungle.

Yet, some migrants have been stranded for weeks waiting on a boat in Necocli, Colombia still waiting to catch a boat to the country. Boats can only accommodate 250 ticketed passengers a day, according to France 24

Colombia's human rights ombudsman Carlos Camargo reported 19,000 undocumented immigrants in the town of 45,000. 

A reported 11,500 people have managed to buy a boat ticket to leave Colombia by October 13 and are currently camping out in rented homes and rooms, as well as camping out on the beach. 

Camargo reported that the remaining 7,500 who were unable to obtain a ticket are now resorting to 'illegal' forms of crossings. 

Migrants boarding a boat to Acandi in hopes of getting to the Panama border. Only 11,500 migrants were able to obtain boat tickets and some have been stranded in Colombia for weeks waiting to board by October 13

Migrants boarding a boat to Acandi in hopes of getting to the Panama border. Only 11,500 migrants were able to obtain boat tickets and some have been stranded in Colombia for weeks waiting to board by October 13

Stranded Haitian and Venezuelan migrants play on the beach in Necocli, Colombia. The 7,500 who are unable to get a boat ticket have begun to take 'illegal' forms of crossings into Panama

Stranded Haitian and Venezuelan migrants play on the beach in Necocli, Colombia. The 7,500 who are unable to get a boat ticket have begun to take 'illegal' forms of crossings into Panama 

Many have left their home countries to escape violence and poverty and are heading toward Del Rio, Texas

Many have left their home countries to escape violence and poverty and are heading toward Del Rio, Texas

The 19,000 mostly Haitian migrants are currently camped out in northern Colombia waiting for a boat to take to Acandi in hopes of crossing through the Darien jungle on the way to the US, despite 41 people dying in the jungle this year

The 19,000 mostly Haitian migrants are currently camped out in northern Colombia waiting for a boat to take to Acandi in hopes of crossing through the Darien jungle on the way to the US, despite 41 people dying in the jungle this year

For those who cross in Acandi and enter Panama, they face a dangerous trek through the Darien jungle. Migrants will face battle snakes, steep ravines, swollen rivers, tropical downpours, and criminals often linked to drug trafficking, according to France 24. Assaults and rapes are commonplace among the trek as drug traffickers prey on vulnerable migrants.  

Only 650 migrants are allowed to trek the Darien jungle per day, according to the agreement made between Colombia and Panama, a key crossing for migrants. 

Man walks with his daughter through the streets of Necocli, Colombia, where thousands wait for boats

Man walks with his daughter through the streets of Necocli, Colombia, where thousands wait for boats 

Once the migrants have entered the Panama border, they are held for processing and deportation, according to Doctors Without Borders. Some will be held there for months if they have waiting for a refugee application or are providing testimony against human traffickers. 

Those held also face inadequate food and shelter, as well as, lack of showers and clean water, in addition to no family communications. 

'The centers are a source of complaints, as those who are held there face inadequate food and shelter, a lack of clean water and showers, and no means to communicate with their families," Doctors Without Borders told France 24. 

Oftentimes migrants crossing between Colombia and Panama are escaping poverty and violence in their home countries and are hoping to start a new life in the US. 

More than 80,000 migrants have crossed the Colombia-Panama border illegally this year. 

The treacherous journey can take months to complete. 

For Mackenson, who asked The New York Times to keep his last name private, it took two months on foot and bus and years of planning to arrive to Del Rio, Texas, from Tapachula, Mexico, near Guatemala. 

Like many migrants, he and his family decided on Del Rio based on rumors. 

A mother stands in the hot sun with her child as they wait to board a boat

A mother stands in the hot sun with her child as they wait to board a boat

Only 250 passengers can be taken to Acandi per day and only 650 migrants are allowed to cross into the Darien jungle a day. Once they cross into Panama, many will follow rumors of where the best place to enter the US is. More than 50,000 migrants have already made the journey to the Panama border this year

Only 250 passengers can be taken to Acandi per day and only 650 migrants are allowed to cross into the Darien jungle a day. Once they cross into Panama, many will follow rumors of where the best place to enter the US is. More than 50,000 migrants have already made the journey to the Panama border this year 

'A friend of mine told me to cross here. I heard it was easier,' Mackenson, 25, told The New York Times. 

Guerline Jozef, the executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, confirmed this to the Times, stating: 'The movement is often based on rumors. 

'Last week, if you’d asked me, I’d say they were in Reynosa and Matamoros. This week it’s Del Rio. These people are extremely desperate. And they know that there is nothing to go back to in Haiti.'

The US also resumed deportation flights under Title 42, which states the government has the right to seal off the border due to the pandemic, deporting around 90 Haitians. 

Many immigrant and refugee advocates rebuke the action, saying it is 'cruel and wrong' to send people back to Haiti right now. 

On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed that nearly 30,000 Haitian migrants have been encountered on the US-Mexico border as they try to enter the country.

Additionally he noted that the camp under the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, which serves the length of the border, has been emptied.

'Nearly 30,000 migrants have been encountered at Del Rio since September 9 with the highest number one time reaching approximately 15,000,' he said at the daily White House press briefing. 

But, Mayorkas noted, 'Today, we have no migrants remaining in the camp.'  

He revealed that 2,000 have been expelled on 17 flights, 8,000 have returned to Haiti voluntarily, 12,4000 are having their cases heard and 5,000 being processed. 

That leaves 2,600 missing. Officials have said some have returned to Mexico. 

It comes after President Joe Biden on Friday vowed the border agents on horseback who tried to stop migrants crossing the into the US will 'pay' and face the ‘consequences’ of their actions.

The president called the photos of agents on horseback intercepting migrants 'horrible to see.'

However the photographer who took the controversial images said the border agents did not whip the Haitian migrants – after it was wrongly and widely reported that they did. 

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed on Friday that nearly 30,000 Haitian migrants have been encountered on the US-Mexico border

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas revealed on Friday that nearly 30,000 Haitian migrants have been encountered on the US-Mexico border


Biden, who failed to address how to solve the border crisis in his remarks, said: ‘It was horrible what to see, as you saw, to see people treat like they did - horses running them over, people being strapped.

‘It's outrageous. I promise you those people will pay. There will be investigation underway now and there will be consequences. There will be consequences. It's an embarrassment.

'But beyond an embarrassment [it] is dangerous, it's wrong, it sends the wrong message around the world, and sends the wrong message at home. It's simply not who we are.'

He was slammed by Meghan McCain in her DailyMail.com column who blamed him for encouraging the 15,000 Haitian migrants to come to the US.

‘But if Biden started actively sending migrants home, he would offend The Squad and their progressive constituencies whose wrath seems to terrify him,’ she said.

Photographer Paul Ratje, who took the images, said he didn't see anyone being whipped.

'I've never seen them whip anyone,' Ratje told KTSM-TV. The still images actually depict the mounted agents swinging the long reins of their horses, not holding whips.

'He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you're looking at the picture,' said Ratje, who shot the photos from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande river.

It came as Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday compared the images to the brutality of slavery.

Harris went beyond earlier comments labeling the treatment 'horrible,' during an appearance on ABC's The View. 

'Human beings should not be treated that way and as we all know it also evoked images of some of the worst moments of our history, where that kind of behavior has been used against the indigenous people of our country. Has been used against African Americans during times of slavery, and so I'm glad to know that [Alejandro] Mayorkas the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is taking it very seriously,' she said.


A Texas judge who has been keeping tabs on the number of migrants in the camp said only 'stragglers' remained of up to 15,000 people who camped on the banks of the Rio Grande

A Texas judge who has been keeping tabs on the number of migrants in the camp said only 'stragglers' remained of up to 15,000 people who camped on the banks of the Rio Grande

Workers remove barricades from the Port of Entry after the migrant camp was cleared along International Bridge in Del Rio. Picture taken with a drone

Workers remove barricades from the Port of Entry after the migrant camp was cleared along International Bridge in Del Rio. Picture taken with a drone

Heavy machinery was brought in on Friday to level the site of the camp and remove piles of debris after the removal of the migrants

Heavy machinery was brought in on Friday to level the site of the camp and remove piles of debris after the removal of the migrants 

Migrants walk through a makeshift border camp along the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas

Migrants walk through a makeshift border camp along the International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas

Val Verde County Judge Lewis Owens, who has been keeping tabs on the number of people in the encampment, said only 'stragglers' remained of up to 15,000 people who camped on the banks of the Rio Grande bordering Mexico a week ago.

‘The last body was removed from the camp at 11.41am,’ Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez told DailyMail.com.

Throughout the morning the last of those who had taken up residence in the squalid camp by the Del Rio International Bridge were bused to the offices of the Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition in Del Rio.

There they were processed before being placed on charter buses bound for Houston or San Antonio. They have ten days to report to authorities in those cities and given a court date.

Some sat outside the Coalition’s single story building for hours, others were placed on a bus within minutes of arriving. One couple — the one dreadlocked woman clearly in some distress — got a seat almost immediately. 

A Reuters witness said the shanty town-like jumble of makeshift shelters and tents had all but disappeared by Friday afternoon, with workers clearing the last debris, as seen in newly released photos from the scene.

It's a dramatic change from last Saturday, when the number peaked as migrants driven by confusion over the Biden administration's policies and misinformation on social media converged at the border crossing connecting Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico.

At a news conference, Del Rio Mayor Buno Lozano called it 'phenomenal news.'

Many of the migrants face expulsion because they are not covered by protections recently extended by the Biden administration to the more than 100,000 Haitian migrants already in the US, citing security concerns and social unrest in the Western Hemisphere´s poorest country.  

A man carries a child as he waits in line with other migrants seeking asylum in the US to board a bus to Houston from Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition after being released from US Customs and Border Protection on Friday

A man carries a child as he waits in line with other migrants seeking asylum in the US to board a bus to Houston from Val Verde Border Humanitarian Coalition after being released from US Customs and Border Protection on Friday

Several hundred Haitian have been released from detention in Texas on Friday

Several hundred Haitian have been released from detention in Texas on Friday 

Images of a US border guard on horseback unfurling a whip-like cord against Haitian migrants crossing the Rio Grande sparked widespread outrage

Images of a US border guard on horseback unfurling a whip-like cord against Haitian migrants crossing the Rio Grande sparked widespread outrage 

As well as the Biden administration's contentious use of expulsion flights that have carried at least 1,400 back to instability in Haiti, Mexico has also sought to bus and fly Haitians to its southern states, far from the US border.

Thousands more are in US detention centers and several hundred have been released in Texas.

On Friday, Reuters reported that the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had formally asked Brazil to receive some of the Haitians from the camp, according to two sources with knowledge of the request.

Many of the Haitians arriving at the US border had previously lived in Brazil and Chile, while others have transited through the South American countries.

President Joe Biden has faced widespread criticism in recent days over the expulsions to Haiti, including in a sternly worded resignation letter from the US Special Envoy to Haiti, Daniel Foote, who said the Caribbean nation was a collapsed state. 

The US government in May extended temporary protection from deportation to Haitians in the United States, citing a political crisis, rights abuses, crime, and lack of access to food, water, and healthcare in the Western hemisphere's poorest country.

Since then, Haiti's president has been assassinated and it suffered a destructive earthquake.

Foote's resignation followed widespread outrage stirred up by images of a US border guard on horseback unfurling a whip-like cord against Haitian migrants. 

At least five more flights taking Haitians from the border camp were scheduled on Friday, flight tracking website Flightaware showed.



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