Central American National said on Thursday that Panama received the first US flight to be deported from other countries, as the Trump administration has offered to act as a stopover for the migrants who expel Panama.
“A flight from the United States Air Force arrived with 119 people from various nationalities in the world,” President Jose Raul Mulino said in his weekly press briefing on Thursday. Hey said that there were migrants from China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other countries.
The President said that this was the first of the three planned flights, which was expected by about 360 people. “This is not a big scale,” he said.
Mulino said that migrants would be taken in a shelter in the field of Panama, before they returned to their countries.
Later on Thursday, when asked why Panama Thesis was working as a stopover for exile, Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ruiz Hernandez said something like this. He said that the US government and immigration agencies were paying for repayment.
The migrants who arrived on Wednesday were in detail after crossing the American border and did not have criminal records, said.
Last week, US State Secretary Marco Rubio met with Mulino in Panama. While US President Donald Trump dominated the demands of withdrawing the control of the Panama Canal, Mulino discussed the efforts to slow the migration through the Darian gap of Panama and he discussed a one to send Panama back to his countries Plated as a bridge.
Rubio gained agreements with Guatemala and Al Salvador, as well as a groundwork for the expansion of the exile of American capacity to accept migrants from other countries.
The stay through the Darren Gap connecting Panama and Colombia was about 90% in January compared to this month a year ago.
Last year, Mulino entered the office, Panama has made dozens of exile flights, which are the most funded by the US government.
Ruiz said on Thursday that Panama “is fully ready to participate and cooperate in this request.”
