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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/...e_code=1.yE4.k2r8.h2VqsNDqNjiF&smid=url-share
I found the article about immigrants being sent to Panama and I'm sharing it as one of my last for the month, so you can read all of it, if you'd like.
I found the article about immigrants being sent to Panama and I'm sharing it as one of my last for the month, so you can read all of it, if you'd like.
Migrants, Deported to Panama Under Trump Plan, Detained in Remote Jungle Camp
The group of unauthorized migrants, which includes children, were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.
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 and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said.
It is unclear how long the group, who were deported under the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to expel unauthorized migrants, will be detained at the jungle camp.
Conditions at the site are primitive, the detainees said. Diseases, including dengue, are endemic to the region, and the government has denied access to journalists and aid organizations.
“It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one deportee, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, a 27-year-old migrant from Iran, after arriving at the camp following a four-hour drive from Panama City. “They gave us a stale piece of bread. We are sitting on the floor.”
“What we agreed with the United States government is that they remain and are in our temporary custody for their protection,” he said.
The Panamanian government has previously said the migrants had no criminal records.
On Wednesday morning, from the Darién region, Ms. Ghasemzadeh described a sweltering encampment, overrun with cats and dogs.
Then, she sent a text message saying that the authorities were confiscating all phones. Her last words: “Please try to help us.”