![Migrants, mostly Venezuelans, walk across the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama.](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/venezuela-refugees-tps-migrant-crisis-us-border-10252022-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
More than 7.1 million Venezuelans have now fled the country, making the exodus the largest migration crisis in the world. But while most Venezuelan migrants had previously sought a safe haven in other countries in South America, migration patterns have shifted toward the U.S. under the false hope that things will be better there.