President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has been nothing short of a massive success, and his policies are paying dividends in unexpected places.
According to the Daily Mail, the Trump administration was able to brag heavily this week about a particularly dangerous jungle choke point "where hundreds of thousands of migrants bound for the U.S. routinely imperiled themselves.
The number of migrants' who crossed there during former President Joe Biden's rule was off the charts, but under President Donald Trump, the numbers have dropped significantly.
The chokepoint, described as "an expanse of dense rainforest, steep ravines and swamps that regularly endures extreme rainfall, flash-floods and landslides."
The area is called the Darien Gap, and due to the sheer number of migrants who attempted to cross there, given the deadly risks of the area, it's known as one of the most dangerous in the world.
Under President Trump's immigration crackdown, the numbers have reportedly slowed to "a trickle."
The Daily Mail noted:
There were 55 migrant deaths in the gap last year, and 180 children abandoned and left for dead were rescued, local authorities claimed. There were 31,000 Darien Gap crossings in June of 2024.
But the dangerous crossings there have all but stopped, and according to a Spanish language news report, just 10 migrants crossed through the Darien Gap this June - something the White House says is cause for celebration.
But it's no wonder why the Panamanian government was shocked by the latest report, as only 3,000 have reportedly tried crossing there in 2025, compared to what's typicall hundreds of thousands.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson explained to the Daily Mail why the numbers have dropped.
"Word of the United States’ secure border has spread so far around the world, that migrants aren’t even willing to make the dangerous journey to get here because they know they’ll be turned away," she told the outlet.
She added, "For the last two months, Border Patrol released zero illegal aliens into the United States."
Several locals in the area who have helped those attempting to cross the gap have confirmed the good news.
Most of them reported that while they used to help hundreds, they're currently only helping a few here and there.
It's simply further proof that whatever Trump is doing, it's working quite well.
