PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama has received the first U.S. flight carrying deportees from other nations as the Trump administration takes Panama up on its offer to act as a stopover for expelled migrants, the Central American nation’s president said Thursday.
“Yesterday a flight from the United States Air Force arrived with 119 people from diverse nationalities of the world,” President José Raúl Mulino said Thursday in his weekly press briefing. He said there were migrants from China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan, among others, aboard.
The president said it was the first of three planned flights that were expected to total about 360 people. “It’s not something massive,” he said.
The migrants
→ Continue reading at The Associated Press
