#venezuelan-migration

#venezuelan-migration

In the Panamanian port village of Miramar, the migrants wait in abandoned houses and makeshift tents, the air heavy with unease. Few know how they will pay for the passage on a crowded boat to their next destination, 10 hours south. All are weary and despondent. I was hoping for a better future, but it was all for nothing, said Gabriela, a 26-year-old Venezuelan mother. I don't know what I will do.

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.

In Module 8, the detainees are allowed blankets and pillows, eat fast food, and exhibit a rambunctious defiance, contrasting sharply with the silence of Module 7.