Migration to US Through Panama's Jungle Cut by 80 Percent

Then, in July, Panama's new President Jose Raul Mulino took office and closed six of the seven border crossings from Colombia and increased patrols. ...

This is likely related to the work done by Kamala Harris when she was appointed by Biden to address the root causes of migration, NOT with securing our Southern border directly. That is the job of the Director of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas.

The current administration's focus evolved to leading a hemisphere-wide effort to mitigate, manage, and order migration through creating and adopting the landmark Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection alongside 21 partners from across the region - notably the first time such a hemispheric-wide agreement directly involved the United States and Canada.

Under the LA declaration, the Biden-Harris administration has secured unprecedented cooperation to curb irregular migration. Today, for example, Mexico is doing more to stem irregular migration to the United States than it has ever done before.

Critically, the LA declaration built on successful migrant integration efforts in Latin America and spurred multiple countries to create new temporary legal status programs for migrants in order to stabilize these populations and to provide an alternative to migrating further. In May 2024, countries such as Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica at the third ministerial meeting on the LA declaration announced regularization programs for various irregular migrant populations - building on the nearly 2 million Venezuelans who had already been provided status in Colombia alone. Today, more than 80 percent of those displaced in Latin America and the Caribbean have found a home in the region and have not proceeded to the U.S.-Mexico border.

So far in fiscal year 2024, compared with fiscal year 2021, there has been a 14 percent drop in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection average monthly encounters from Guatemala, a 39 percent drop from El Salvador, and a 50 percent drop from Honduras.

Combined with a recent executive order signed by President Biden related to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and the use of the statutory immigration parole authority to build new, lawful pathways, these layered efforts to mitigate, manage, and order migration have, in recent months, reduced encounters between ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border to below what they were during the same months in 2019.

Vice President Harris' work in northern Central America and the Biden-Harris administration's efforts through the LA declaration have set the United States up for precisely that kind of sustained order - but only if elected leaders turn away from weaponizing immigration and work on real solutions.

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Until the search I just did a couple minutes ago, I'm today's day-old in ever hearing about the LA declaration. Democrats completely suck at even making Americans aware of what Biden and Harris have done which is directly responsible for the record drop of migrants showing up at our border over the last few months.

So the next time one of Trump's ignoranti jump into a discussion of "open borders," mark this thread and link for something to counter them. They won't believe it anyway, but it happens to be the truth.

Harris had nothing to do with Panama closing it's borders.

I presented the exact link SHOWING all the nations in the LA Declaration and Panama indeed is one. The actions their new President took is consistent with what other nations are doing as well, all of them signees of the pact.

Perhaps you'd be better served providing links to things you post without substantiation. You have zero credibility, and you know it.

they are flying them in, upto 30,000 a month through the parole program.

You do realize that the US needs immigrant workers in the worst way, especially in agriculture, don't you?

And these are vetted asylum seekers who did what we asked, and that was to register in their own countries and not show up on our borders.

And 30,000 is far less than the numbers showing up monthly during the peak months over recent years.

FFS, the US implements a plan for orderly immigration and you xenophobes continue to complain. Just wait until you need some service and there is no one there to provide it to you because the job is unfilled due to lack of workers.

From Oneiron's own link that was conveniently left out of his diatribe.

The program started in fall 2022. Migrants must apply online, arrive at an airport and have a financial sponsor in the U.S. If approved, they can stay for two years and get a work permit.

Some states said the initiative has benefited them. One Nicaraguan migrant admitted into the country through that process filled a position at a farm in Washington state that was struggling to find workers.

Tipton questioned how Texas could be claiming financial losses if data showed that the parole program actually reduced the number of migrants coming into the U.S.

Exactly! Just as absurd as Oneiron complaining about this effective program that limits the number of migrants. Evidently, bigoted xenophobes want no immigration whatsoever. If so, come out and say it and stop trying to hide behind hyperbole and scare quotes.