“Panama cannot end up becoming a black hole for deported migrants,” said Juan Pappier, deputy director of Human Rights Watch in the Americas. “Migrants have the right to communicate with their families, to seek lawyers and Panama must guarantee transparency about the situation in which they find themselves.”

Panama said on Tuesday that it's working to formalize a route long used to smuggle migrants on the way to the U.S., which is now being increasingly used to return migrants to South America in a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration.

Unos 300 migrantes indocumentados que se encuentran en las costas de Miramar, Colón, en el norte de Panamá, se preparan para regresar a Necoclí, en el oeste de Colombia, en una travesía a la ...

The boat was one of three that had taken off from the Port of Llano Carti toward La Miel, Panama, near the border with Colombia. The other two boats suspended their journeys due to “adverse ...

A boat carrying 19 migrants, part of a “reverse flow” of migrants who once hoped to reach the United States, capsized off Caribbean coast of Panama

Colombia y Panamá deben reforzar su colaboración para hacer proteger los derechos humanos de todos los migrantes en la región, incluyendo en el peligroso tránsito por la selva de Darién que ...

The decision comes as a growing number of migrants give up on seeking asylum in the U.S., often after crossing the perilous jungles dividing Colombia and Panama.