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The Biden administration’s border policy relies on Mexico for crucial help.

Julie Turkewitz, The Times’s Andes bureau chief, and Federico Rios, a photographer, recently traveled the 70-mile migrant route in the Darién Gap.

About 32,500 children have walked through Panama’s jungle in the past ten months. Half of them under 5 years old.

Faced with lengthy bureaucratic delays, tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants are slipping into the city’s underground economy and joining its army of undocumented workers.

The pandemic, climate change and growing conflict are forcing a seismic shift in global migration. In few places is that more clear than a perilous crossing called the Darién Gap.

Plus Russia says it is retreating from Kherson City and markets try to parse China’s “zero Covid.”

The changes are “part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce irregular migration throughout the Western Hemisphere.”

Newly arrived asylum seekers are finding that their job options are limited by federal rules on work permits.

The Biden administration may allow the last American company producing oil in Venezuela to resume exports if the Maduro government takes steps to restore democracy.

Two crises are converging at the perilous land bridge known as the Darién Gap: the economic and humanitarian disaster underway in South America, and the bitter fight over immigration policy in Washington.