A group of almost 100 migrants, including the Pakistani, deported from the United States to Panama last week moved from a hotel in the capital to the Darien Jungle region in the south of the country, the Government of Panama said Wednesday.
In a statement, the Ministry of Security of Panama said that the 299 deported migrants from the United States in recent days, 13 had been repatriated to their countries of origin, while another 175 remained in the hotel in the city of Panama waiting for trips From now on after accepting home.
Migrants have stayed at the hotel under the protection of local authorities and with the financial support of the United States through the unrelated international organization for migration and the United Nations Agency, according to the Panamanian government.
Migrants include people from Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkiye, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, according to the president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, who has agreed with the United States to receive non -Panamanos deportees.
The deportation of non -Panaman migrants to Panama is part of the Trump administration attempt to increase deportations of migrants who live illegally in the United States.
One of Trump’s plan’s challenges is that some migrants come from countries that refuse to accept deportation flights from the United States due to tense diplomatic relations or other reasons.
The agreement with Panama allows the United States to deport these nationalities and is Panama’s responsibility to organize its repatriation.
The process has been criticized by human rights groups that concern migrants can be mistreated and also fear for their safety if they are finally returned to countries of violent origin or devastated by war, such as Afghanistan.
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She refused to identify her nationality, but said they were a Muslim family that “could be beheaded” if they returned home.
Sabalza said the family would request asylum in Panama or “any country that will receive them that they are not yours.”
The declaration of the Ministry of Security said that 97 migrants had been transferred to the shelter in the Darien region, which includes a dense jungle and without law that separates Central America from South America.
In recent years, it has become a corridor for hundreds of thousands of migrants with the aim of reaching the United States. Eight more migrants would be transferred there soon, the statement added.
Yesterday, the hotel in the city of Panama where migrants had been retained seemed silent, according to a Reuters witness.
On Tuesday, some migrants took hand in hand and looking out the hotel window to get the attention of journalists.
Migrants at the hotel were not allowed to leave, according to media reports.
A Chinese national, Zheng Lijuan, escaped from the hotel, according to the Panama Migration Service, but was then caught in Costa Rica and returned to Panama.
