(20 Aug 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Panama City, Panama – 20 August 2024
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1. Panama Immigration officer during boarding of the first US-funded flight
2. Various of Colombian nationals boarding plane
3. Luis Felipe Icaza, Panama’s Vice Minister of Security, during boarding
4. Colombian nationals boarding plane
5. Various of news briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Felipe Icaza, Panama’s Vice Minister of Security:
"Today we have the first flight of the agreement sponsored by the U.S. Embassy. We have had other flights financed by the government of Panama and we hope to regularize (them) as we go through the paperwork of the migrants."
5. News briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roger Mojica Rivera, Panama’s National Immigration Service Director:
"We are working with Colombia in the deportation process that is taking place, we are coordinating with other nationalities, for example with Ecuador, we are also approaching India. The issue of Venezuela has a particular (uniqueness) because of the diplomatic relations, now we are prevented from making any kind of movement to Venezuela."
7. News briefing
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Roger Mojica Rivera, Panama’s National Immigration Service Director:
"All these people that we are adding to the deportation process are entering through the border with Colombia, in the area of the province of Darien. We have been segregating them in a controlled flow operation that we are carrying out – it is a joint operation of the national border service and the immigration service. They are doing a series of profiling and capturing their biometric information."
9. Various of migrants boarding plane
STORYLINE:
Panama deported 29 Colombians on Tuesday on a flight that the government said was the first paid for by the United States under an agreement the two countries signed in July.
The Colombians had entered Panama illegally through the Darien jungle, a path used by more than 500,000 migrants headed north last year. The vast majority of those were Venezuelans.
But at least for now, Panama is not able to deport Venezuelans because the relationship between the two countries has turned tense since Panama — like most other countries in the region – has refused to recognize the results of Venezuela’s election giving President Nicolas Maduro another term.
The two countries have suspended their diplomatic relations.
Panama President José Raúl Mulino, who took office July 1, pledged to stop that migration flow, an interest he shares with the U.S. government.
Mulino had originally said the flights would be "voluntary" repatriations, but those deported Tuesday had criminal records, officials said.
Roger Mojica Rivera, Panama’s National Immigration Service Director, told reporters Tuesday that Panama is speaking with other countries such as Ecuador and India about coordinating repatriation flights.
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