First US-funded return flight for irregular migrants leaves Panama

[Harpy Eagle]

Primer vuelo de retorno de migrantes irregulares financiado por EE.UU. sale de Panamá

El primer vuelo de retorno de migrantes irregulares que cruzaron la peligrosa selva del Darién, financiado por Estados Unidos en el marco de un acuerdo con Panamá, salió este martes de la capital del país centroamericano con destino a la ciudad de Medellín, en Colombia.

www.panamaamerica.com.pa

Around 30 Colombian citizens, mostly young people and with criminal records, according to official sources who spoke to EFE, arrived in handcuffs at the Marcos A. Gelabert Airport in the capital, better known as the Albrook terminal, where after a documentary search they boarded the aircraft, which departed shortly after 06:00 local time (11:00 GMT).

The head of the National Migration Service (SNM), Roger Mojica, said at a press conference that the migrants on this first flight financed by the United States were returned to Colombia under the guise of deportation.

Among the Colombian citizens deported on Tuesday is a suspected "hitman" of the Colombian Clan del Golfo, who was identified through the biometric system used by Panamanian authorities in Darien, the official added.

This is good news. Getting the help of other countries is the best way to beat the problem.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Primer vuelo de retorno de migrantes irregulares financiado por EE.UU. sale de Panamá

El primer vuelo de retorno de migrantes irregulares que cruzaron la peligrosa selva del Darién, financiado por Estados Unidos en el marco de un acuerdo con Panamá, salió este martes de la capital del país centroamericano con destino a la ciudad de Medellín, en Colombia.

www.panamaamerica.com.pa

Around 30 Colombian citizens, mostly young people and with criminal records, according to official sources who spoke to EFE, arrived in handcuffs at the Marcos A. Gelabert Airport in the capital, better known as the Albrook terminal, where after a documentary search they boarded the aircraft, which departed shortly after 06:00 local time (11:00 GMT).

The head of the National Migration Service (SNM), Roger Mojica, said at a press conference that the migrants on this first flight financed by the United States were returned to Colombia under the guise of deportation.

Among the Colombian citizens deported on Tuesday is a suspected "hitman" of the Colombian Clan del Golfo, who was identified through the biometric system used by Panamanian authorities in Darien, the official added.

This is good news. Getting the help of other countries is the best way to beat the problem.

Why were they allowed to enter America to begin with?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why were they allowed to enter America to begin with?

They were stopped in Panama and not allowed to pass through.

Then the US paid to have them flown home since Panama is stopping them for the US.

 

[Doc7505]

They were stopped in Panama and not allowed to pass through.

Then the US paid to have them flown home since Panama is stopping them for the US.

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Ar you sure they were flown to Columbia and not to the U.S.?