Panama Urges Trump to Continue US Aid for Migrant Deportations

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Panama’s president appealed to US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday to maintain the aid Washington gives his central American country for deporting US-bound migrants. The United States has contributed $1 million towards the cost of deporting over 1,000 migrants who tried to cross the Darien jungle from Colombia into Panama since July.

“I believe it must be maintained under the Trump administration,” said the right-wing Jose Raul Mulino, who was elected in May on a promise to end the migrant transit through Panama. His government has organized some 30 deportation flights to Colombia, Ecuador and India.

Mulino has not however deported Venezuelans — who account for the bulk of the migrants crossing the jungle — because Panamanian planes have been barred from landing in Venezuela. Caracas instituted the ban on Panama and several other Latin American countries after they criticized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s claim to have won re-election.

The Darien jungle is a key route for the smuggling of South American migrants trying to reach the United States through Central America. In 2023, more than half a million migrants braved fast-flowing rivers, wild animals and criminal gangs as they crossed the jungle.

So far this year, nearly 300,000 people have crossed the Darien, 41 percent less than in the same period of 2023, a decrease which Mulino attributed partly to the deportation flights. Trump has threatened to carry out the largest deportation of migrants in US history when he becomes president on January 20.

His transition team has reportedly drawn up a list of countries, including Panama, to which it wants to deport undocumented migrants when their home countries refuse to take them back. But Panama has stressed it will only take back its own citizens.

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