to the tip of south america and many never make it through. they mention a lot of going down the hill. the hill of death. many accidents. now grace our dogs in nearby towns for those who perish along the way. if the international organization of migration says more than 91,000 migrants have successfully made it to the gap this year. it s a pipeline that is turned profitable on the colombian side. residents are being thrown out of their homes to make rooms for a place to safer paying haitians. from local renters to give them to haitians and around 50 commercial hotels have also been taken or contracts have been ended to rent to haitians. speak at the next stop in their journey, shelters here in southern panama and our cameras got an exclusive look at. you saw dead bodies? yes. so many dead bodies. really?
migrants have to go through this juggle area with all the natural dangers, along with narco traffickers and warring rebel factions just to get through. many of them die along the way. yet the migrants make that trek. now if you look at some of the footage in a town just north of where we are, you can see they are digging graves for the migrants they pull out of the jungle that don t make it through this pass. we also understand from the panama officials, the 60,000 they try to get out of that town can t get access to going north there are 20,000 still in columbia trying to enter that dangerous jungle and because the haitian pipeline is so profitable to cartels, a lawyer in columbia says residents in the small towns are being thrown out of their houses for paying haitians. listen to this.
have been taken or contracts have been ended to rent to haitians. the next stop in their journey? shelters here in southern panama that our cameras got an exclusive look at. you saw dead bodies. yes. so many dead bodies. really? yes. i was really shocked when i saw them. i was like, wow, just forget about it. we had to do what we had to do. bret, the conditions in the camp are hey humanitarian crisis. panamanian officials during the best they can. arriving every day, they are coming through. some 500 leaves on buses that you see behind me. that bus, like many before it, go straight to the costa rican border where they will be let out to continue their journey. the cost for a ride? $40. taking off now.
by the previous administration. we have fox team coverage. bill melugin in southern texas where authorities who are already overwhelmed by the surge are bracing for a new onslaught. we begin with griff jenkins in panama. good evening. good evening. we are the first tv journalists to come here to the migrant camp in southern panama. it opened in may of 2020. it s the same way point that most of those 15,000 haitians passed through on their way to that bridge in del rio three weeks ago. we came here to see where the border crisis begins long before it reaches the u.s. a pipeline of haitian migrant streaming toward to the begin south of the american southern border. panama s foreign minister says there are currently 60,000 migrants passing through her country with another 20,000 waiting to cross from colombia. the crossing if through some of
the most treacherous train on earth. it s a lawless jungle accessible by road, ruled by drug traffickers, smugglers who prey on the migrants. it s the only break in the pan-american highway from alaska to the tip of southern america. interpreter: they mention a lot of places. they talk about going down a hill. they also set on some occasions [indistinct] for those who perish along the way. the international organization of migration says migrants. the pipeline on the colombian side. as it is being thrown out of their homes to make room for a place to stay for paying haitians. interpreter: around 100 homes have been taken from local renters to give them to haitians and around 50 commercial rentals