Tourists breeze past Hattian migrants playing soccer on a Colombia beach

Around 17,000 migrants are stuck in Colombia as they await safe passage to Panama to make their way to the United States. Tourists are seen wondering about a Colombian beach as migrants play soccer while they wait to embark for the dangerous Darien jungle Haitian migrants play soccer as they camp on a beach in Necocli, Colombia on September 26 Some Haitians were seen playing games, including dominoes, with fellow Venezuelan travelers who are also hoping to seek asylum in the U.S. A woman is seen holding a child as she sits at the migrant camp on a beach in Necocli, Colombia Migrants are seen in the water off of a beach in Necocli as a motor boat passes by Photographs released Monday show tourists and Haitian migrants jostling for the beach as the immigrants find ways to pass the time as they wait for space on boats that cross will to the other side of the Gulf of Uraba, the end of Colombia. The dangerous trek of at least five days to Panama through the Darien jungle requires migrants to battle snakes, steep ravines, swollen rivers, tropical downpours and criminals often linked to drug trafficking Both Colombia and Panama are allowing 500 migrants to cross through their borders each day, a number that is 'far fewer' than the 1,500 arrivals that have been reported daily While 16,000 people remain in Necocli, Colombia waiting for smugglers to help them cross through 'one of the most dangerous and impassable regions of Latin America,' approximately 4,000 migrants have already passed through Panama and are en route to the U.S. Thousands of migrants continue attempt to make their way from South America to the U.S. borders A group of migrants is seen hiking through the jungle region on Sept. 26, carrying water bottles, sleeping bags and other essential supplies A woman helps her child wade through a stream as a group of migrants embarks on a journey through the Darien Gap Why Haitians are fleeing to America: Thousands of Haitians have crossed the border into Texas in weeks and months to seek asylum in America. Here a group walks toward the border of Panama from Colombia on Saturday Haitian migrants sail on Saturday from Colombia to Panama as another caravan makes its way to the U.S. southern border amid an already overwhelming surge The area where the encampment of Haitian migrants stood just days early is seen empty on Saturday, allowing the Del Rio Port of Entry to reopen after being closed for a week Almost all of the mostly Haitian migrants who set up camp near the Del Rio International Bridge this month left as of Saturday He did, however, acknowledge that the U.S. immigration system needed to be reformed. Many of these mostly Haitian migrants get stranded in the Colombia port awaiting a boat out to cross into neighboring Panama to make their way to the U.S. to claim asylum Migrants set up a makeshift camp on Saturday evening as they travel to the northern-est border of Colombia to await boat transportation to Panama Many Haitian migrants who have been camped out in South and Central American countries for months - and some for years – claim they now feel it's time to make the trek to the U.S. due to a perception that President Biden's immigration policies will be more favorable than those of former president Donald Trump.