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Some 19,000
Some have been stranded for weeks in the coastal town of Necocli in the northwestern Antioquia department, waiting for seats on boats that cross the Gulf of Uraba by boat to Acandi, which borders Panama.
There are only 250 boat tickets available every day, said Colombia's human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
ombudsman Carlos Camargo.
He reported that a mission "evaluating the migrant crisis" at Necocli -- a village of 45,000 people -- counted some 19,000 undocumented
Most were Haitians, Camargo said on Twitter.
Haitians form a significant portion of the tens of thousands of
Waiting out the bottleneck in Colombia,
Some 11,500 people have bought tickets to make the boat trip by October 13, and a further unknown number of people unable to purchase tickets have resorted to other forms of "illegal" crossings," said Camargo.
Once across, the
In a recent report, Doctors Without Borders (known by its French acronym MSF) said criminal gangs in the jungle prey on
Under an agreement between the governments of Colombia and Panama, no more than 650
More than 50,000 people have crossed the border Colombia-Panama border so far this year.
Once in Panama, MSF reported last month,
Those with pending administrative or judicial processes -- refugee applications, for example, or giving testimony against human traffickers -- can be held at a migrant reception center for weeks or months.
"The centers are a source of complaints, as those who are held there face inadequate food and shelter, a lack of clean water and showers, and no means to communicate with their families," MSF said.
The Colombia-Panama border is a key crossing for
Last year, a steady influx of
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travel restrictions and border closures.
But officials say there have been several thousand new arrivals at Necocli in recent weeks.