PANA CITY (AP) – Panama transferred about a third of the exiles from various countries that they received from the US to camps in Darien on Wednesday. Borders Security officials said late Wednesday in recent years.
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 Large group of 299 immigrants to Panama by the US government When President Donald Trump’s administration tries 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 guards Panama City Hotel We are waiting for a travel arrangement to our 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 her brief escape against “traffickers.”
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 immigrants will be sent to a nearby temporary immigration facility Darien Gapforested areas along the Colombian border until it is clear where they will be sent. The area has historically been used to move north by immigrants from Venezuela and other countries.
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