14,000 US-bound people have returned south since Trump border crackdown, UN finds

Report finds migrants, mainly Venezuelans, have fewer funds, few work prospects and are preyed on by criminal gangs on journey back

More than 14,000 people, mainly Venezuelans, who hoped to reach the US have reversed course and turned south since the start of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to a report by the governments of Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.

The phenomenon, known as “reverse flow” migration, is largely made up of Venezuelans who fled the country’s long-running economic, social and political crises only to encounter US immigration policy no longer open to asylum seekers.

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