Author: Julie Turkewitz, Farnaz Fassihi, Hamed Aleaziz and Annie Correal
Published on: 19/02/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night. Conditions at the site are primitive, the detainees said. It is unclear how long the group, which was deported under the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to expel unauthorized migrants, will be detained. Security minister Frank brego said migrants were being held by Panama. The transfer is the latest move in a weeklong saga for a group of 300 migrants. It is part of a larger strategy by the Trump administration to export migration challenges. Iranian Christians and a man from China told The New York Times they risk reprisals if returned to their native countries. Under Iranian law, converting from Islam is considered apostasy and is a crime punishable by death. Two migrants used their cellphones to share their real-time location with The Times, allowing reporters to track their movements. Ms. Ghasemzadeh said she could see large containers that appeared to be the migrants’ new homes. Officials instructed them to fill out forms with their names, and asked for fingerprints. Mr. Brego said 170 of the 300 or so migrants had volunteered to be sent back to their countries of origin. On Wednesday he said that 12 people from Uzbekistan and India had been repatriated with the help of the International Organization for Migration. Officials also said that one of the migrants in their custody, a woman from China, had escaped from the hotel. The Panamanian government has previously said the migrants had no criminal records. More than half of the migrants from Asian nations sent to the country by the U.S. Have agreed to return to their home countries, Panama said. The roughly 150 migrants who refused are set to be sent to a camp near the jungle.
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