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Fri Aug 30, 2024, 07:21 AM Aug 2024

Panama deports Ecuadorean migrants in second US-backed flight

https://www.voanews.com/a/panama-deports-ecuadorean-migrants-in-second-us-backed-flight/7765093.html

Panama deports Ecuadorean migrants in second US-backed flight

August 30, 2024 6:41 AM
By Reuters

PANAMA CITY —
Panamanian authorities deported a group of migrants to Ecuador on a second flight financed by the United States, as part of an agreement between the U.S. and Panama to discourage irregular crossings and reduce the flow of mostly U.S.-bound migration.

The flight carrying 30 Ecuadoreans departed on Thursday evening en route to the coastal city of Manta, Ecuador, Panama's migration service said, adding the migrants were deported for evading a migration checkpoint on the popular Darien Gap route.

Thousands of people every year cross the dangerous Darien Gap jungle on Panama's border with Colombia on the way to the United States.

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The latest deportation comes days after Panama's President Jose Mulino announced return flights for Indian migrants in September and for Chinese citizens on an unspecified date.

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