Panama asks Donald Trump to keep funding for migrants

Panamanian President Jose Raul Molino appealed on Thursday to US President-elect Donald Trump, who is expected to take office on January 20. The Panamanian leader asked Washington to continue providing financial support for the repatriation of migrants who are arrested while trying to cross the Darien jungle on the border with Colombia. “We continue to implement the repatriation program, based on a protocol (…) that we signed on July 1 with the Biden administration”, a bilateral agreement which, after certain “details” are resolved, is expected to “maintain, in my opinion, with the Trump administration said yesterday Mr. Mulino during a press conference. Thanks to a six million dollar donation from Washington, Panama proceeded to repatriate more than a thousand migrants, organizing some thirty charter flights bound for Colombia, Ecuador and India. The issue of repatriating Venezuelan migrants — who made up the vast majority of those who crossed Darien in 2013 — remains […]
Source: News Beast

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