Over 14,000 Migrants Bail On Their Plans To Enter US Amid Trump’s Crackdown

Thousands of migrants hoping to make it into the United States have turned around since President Donald Trump returned to office and began instituting harsher border policies, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Over 14,000 U.S.-bound migrants — most of whom were Venezuelan nationals — revered course and returned southward since Trump began cracking down on illegal 🛂Immigration and bolstered the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a report published by the governments of Panama, Colombia and Costa Rica and reviewed by the AP. The report, which was backed by the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, found that north-bound migration plummeted 97% in 2025.

The findings follow Trump’s dismantling of several Biden-era policies that facilitated mass 🛂Immigration into the U.S., such as the now-defunct CBP One app which allowed foreign nationals to apply for asylum appointments at the border. The administration has also hastened the end of the Biden-era CHNV program, which flew in hundreds of thousands of migrants, including Venezuelan nationals, into the U.S.

The majority of the returning migrants are headed back to their home countries, according to data from the UN-backed report. Fifty-one percent are returning to Venezuela, which has served as