NECOCLI, Colombia—In the Colombian beach town of Necocli, thousands of Haitian migrants live in a makeshift tent city while waiting to cross the Gulf of Uraba into Panama through the Darien Gap. While Necocli always has been a stopover point on the caravan route to the United States, the number of migrants has increased dramatically since President Joe Biden took office in January.
Local estimates suggest as many as 20,000 migrants inhabit the camp.