Migrants deported from us to Costa Rica, panama in a legal “black hole”
Costa Rican and Panama officials are confiscated by the passports and mobile phones of migrants, they deny access to their legal services and move them between distant exits.
In his first month, the Trump's Administration ordered the Pentagon and the Security Department of the Homeland to prepare 30,000 migrants in Guantanamo, although the US Navy Database had had more than two decades.
The administration has also been acquired by Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, as required for migrants from the United States, but no agreement is detailed for refugees for refugees and asylum seekers.
Panama and Costa Rica, long transit countries for northern people, have faced the new flow of migrants in the south and organizes the flow.
But now the two countries have received hundreds of displaced countries sent by the United States, as President Donald Trump administration is trying to speed up the deportations. At the same time, thousands of migrants from the United States have started to move to the south in Central America – Panama in February 2,200 has so far been registered.
“We reflect the reflection of the United States Immigration Immigration Policy,” said Harold Willegas-Roman, a professor of political science and a refugee expert at Costa Rican University. “There is no attention on human rights, only attention is paid to control and security. Everything is very gloomy and not transparent. “
US Secretary of Defense Pete spoke to the Fox News analyst, which must be made in 2025. On January 29, about us, President Donald Trump's upcoming plans for making migrants in the Sea of Guantanamo. Although Trump said that the United States will “make the worst criminal illegal foreigners that threaten the American people,” he will become the center of the prison.
Probably not the final destination
Earlier this month, the United States sent 299 displaced from Asian countries to Panama. Those who were ready to return to their countries, about 150 have been planned by UN agencies and have been paid by the United States.
On Thursday, Panama Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ruiz-Hernandez said that the small number of international organizations and the UN refugee agency, as they weighed to seek asylum.
“None of them want to stay in Panama. They want to leave for the United States, “he said in a telephone conversation from Washington. “We can't give them green cards, but we can return them home, and in a short period of time they provide medical and psychological support as an apartment.
Despite the threats to restore control over the Panama canal, he said that Panama did not work under US pressure.
“This is one of the national interests of Panama. We are a friend of the US and we want to work with them to send a restraining signal. “
Ruiz-Hernandez said that some deputation remained in Panama would be given the option to remain in the shelter, initially a large number of migrants moving to northern north.
A woman is currently arrested in the camp, who spoke about the condition of anonymity, to avoid the consequences, said that it was not a choice.
He was deported by Panama without knowing where they were sent to sign documents without deportation in the United States and without finding out how long they would be there. He was one of the displaced people moved from the Panama city hotel, where some had signs of their windows, asking for help in Darien region.
Speaking about messages on a phone call with AP, he said that the authorities were confiscated by other people's phones and offered them any legal assistance. Others say they could not contact their lawyers.
“This deprived us of our legal process,” he said.
Spokesman Caroline Levit said on Tuesday that Trump's administration believes that any migrants who have been admitted to illegal “criminal”.
Panama President Jose Raul Mulino asked about the lack of entry into legal services on Thursday, questioned the idea that migrants would even have lawyers.
“Panama cannot end a black hole for displaced migrants,” said Juan Papiye. “Migrants have the right to communicate with their families, to look for lawyers, and Panama must guarantee transparency about the situation when they appear.”
Venezuelan migrants feel “hopeless”
At the same time, Costa Rica faced criticisms of the country's independent human rights organization that have raised an alarm on the occasion of “failures” to guarantee proper conditions for those arriving. The ombudsman's office said that migrants were also deprived of their passports and other documents and were not informed about what happened or where they were going.
It seemed to them that the 27-year-old Venezuelan Kimberlyer Pereira, who traveled with his husband and four-year-old son.
Pereira has been waiting for the appointment in Mexico for months, crossing the dangerous Darien, dividing Colombian and Panama, focusing on Central America. But after the Trump, he took over and closed the legal ways facing the United States, he refused and decided to go home despite the continued Venezuelan crises.
But one week after the kept in the prison in Costa Rica, he expressed “hopelessness” near the border.
Officials told them that they would leave for Kuccuta, a Colombian city next to the Venezuelan border. But they were loaded on the buses and drove the Caribbean seaport to the Miramar Panama.
Before dawn Thursday, Pereirat and other migrants sat on wooden boats that were taken to the Colombia-Panama border where they planned to continue their journey. They paid us $ 200 equivalent to us for a trip.
