Julio Perez, a 38-year-old auto mechanic, sold his car and tools to make the dangerous journey from Venezuela to the United States.
But like many migrants in the two months since the United States changed its immigration policy, he opted to board a plane back to Venezuela.the existing Title 42 policy, used since the pandemic to send migrants from Central America and elsewhere back to Mexico and other countries without a chance to seek asylum, to include Venezuelans.
Reuters spoke to nine migrants who crossed the Darien and had to return because of the policy change, including Franklin Sandoval a 22-year-old, who, like Perez, hails from Venezuela's west-central city of El Tocuyo. "To be told this news was really, really awful after everything I experienced there in the jungle," Sandoval said.
Since returning, he has been unable to find work and says he suffers anxiety attacks remembering the journey.The Washington Office on Latin America , a rights group, says the move has exacerbated an existing humanitarian crisis pointing to families traveling with children and a lack of shelters.
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