They once braved the jungles of the Darien Gap, trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: seek asylum in the U.S. 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,

They once ventured through the jungles of the Darién Gap, trekking for days along the dangerous migrant path that separates Colombia and Panama, driven by a simple goal: to seek asylum in the United States.