The immigrants were deported from the US waves from inside a hotel in Panama City to the media on Wednesday. Agustin Herrera/AP Hidden Caption
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PANA CITY – Panama forwarded about a third of the exiles from various countries that they received from the US to camps in Darien on Wednesday. In 2019, security officials said late Wednesday.
The migrants sent to Darien voluntarily refuse to be repatriated to their country and, once they are detained there until a third country is found to take them, they are allowed to speak publicly. The case was stated by a Panama official who is well versed in the situation where he requested anonymity because he did not.
They were part of a large group of 299 immigrants to Panama by the US government as US President Donald Trump attempted to accelerate his deportation.
Panama’s security ministry said in a statement later Wednesday that 97 migrants will be sent to camps in Darien, with an additional 87 going there in the next few hours. He said 13 migrants have already been voluntarily returned to their country.
Others remained under the security guards at a hotel in Panama City, waiting for a travel arrangement to their country. The Panama government denied that they were in detention, but they are under security guards and are not permitted to leave the hotel.
Panama’s National Immigration Agency announced on Wednesday that one migrant, a Chinese woman, had fled the hotel, but authorities later reported her seizing.
Security Minister Frank Abrego wrote in a post on Social Platform X that it was found to have been abandoned near an immigration processing facility along the northern border of Panama Costa Rica. Found in Panama or Costa Rica, he condemned the “traffickers” for the brief escape.
Outcasts, primarily from Asian countries, are in a kind of scope in Panama after Central American countries agreed that it would serve as a transport system for immigrants that the Trump administration would find difficult to deport directly to their own country.
Abrego said Tuesday that 171 migrants did not provide a specific timeline but agreed to return to their country of origin. He also pointed out that Irish citizens had already been deported.
The remaining migrants will be sent to temporary mobile facilities near Darien Gap, a large area of woodland along the Colombian border. The area has historically been used to move north by immigrants from Venezuela and other countries.
