More than 100 asylum seekers from around the world sent to Panama from the United States have no sense how long they will be held or where they might eventually be sent.

Costa Rican authorities have raised concerns about inadequate medical evaluations and the conditions of U.S. deportees held in detention facilities near the Panamanian border

Boatloads of migrants have returned to South America this week from a new departure point in Panama -- part of an increasing and chaotic reverse migratory flow triggered by US

A deportee from the United States detained in a camp in rural Panama, among a hundred who refused to return to their countries, has described waiting in limbo under “harsh conditions” and cut off from access to legal council and other rights.

Panama is serving as a stopover for unauthorized migrants being removed from the U.S. by the Trump administration. To discuss the country's role in receiving hundreds of migrants, Amna Nawaz spoke with Carlos Ruiz-Hernández,

Migrants deported from the United States wave to the press from inside a hotel in Panama City, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera) Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported under U.S. President Donald ...

The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

Prior to the origination of the plans for the Panama Canal vessels of trade had few options of getting goods from Europe and Asia to N. America.

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow.