The local government in northwestern Colombia said mass migration to Central America had a humanitarian crisis at the border with Panama.
According to the mediator of Necoclí, the city in the region of Urabá has not been able to cope with a growing number of migrants seeking to succeed in Central America.
Necoclí’s mediator, Wilfredo Menco, told local media that mass migration was unsustainable in his town, which officially has a population of 70,000.
According to Menco, some 2,500 migrants cross the Gulf of Uraba every day into the jungles of the so-called Darien Gap on the border with Panama.
The number of other people stranded in Necoclí has risen to more than 10,000 because the number of migrants arriving has exceeded local transport capacity, the human rights official said.
Right now, we have an overpopulation crisis. There are many migrants with express needs, they do not get the obligatory and we have many travelers in very precarious conditions, many young people with malnutrition problems. We have discovered young people who are poorly cared for because they lack food, shelter, diapers, among others. stuff.
The U. S. Department of Homeland Security, which coordinates immigration, said Wednesday that more than 3,000 people cross the Darien Gap every day.
DHS said the U. S. government is not in the process of doing so. The U. S. Department of Justice plans to “offer more security assistance to regional partners to address demanding migration situations in the Darien Gap. “
The European Union humanitarian firm announced Wednesday that it will allocate humanitarian aid to Colombia with 33 million dollars to deal with the crisis in Necoclí and Acandi, the municipality on the other side of the Gulf of Uraba.
Colombia’s inspector general’s office suggested that the national government coordinate with Panamanian authorities, which would allow all migrants to cross safely and lessen the crisis at the border.
More than 150,000 people crossed the Panamanian border through the Darien Gap this year, according to Colombia’s Ombudsman’s Office.
That would be the first accumulation of the other 134,000 people who made the dangerous adventure in 2021.
The recent peak increase is believed to be due to an increased number of Venezuelans fleeing their country, which has suffered a humanitarian and political crisis for more than five years.
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