City Panama – Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran and China deported from the United States and fell into Limbo in Panama The champion in embassies and consulates this week in a desperadime searched for asylum in any country to accept them.
The focus of international humanitarian concerns only a few weeks, now they say that they are increasingly worried about being with little legal and humanitarian aid and without a clear path they did not offer, they can be forgotten.
“After this, we don’t know what we’re going to do,” said 29-year-old Hayatullah Omagh, who escaped in Afghanistan in 2022. year after taking Taliban.
In February, the United States was deported by almost 300 people from the mostly Asian people in Panama. The central American was supposed to be a stop for migrants from countries that were more challenging for the United States to deport how Trump Management tried to accelerate deportations. Some agreed to return to their own countries from Panama, but others refused for fear of persecution and the UA sent Remote Camp in Darien Jungle weeks.
Earlier this month, Panama They let those remaining migrants From the camp, giving them a month to leave Panama. The government said that they refused assistance from international organizations, instead by choosing their arrangements. But with limited money, there is no acquaintance with Panama and small towards Spanish, migrants fought.
On Tuesday, a dozen migrants started visiting foreign missions in Panamin capital, including Canadian and British Embassies, and Switzerland and Australian Consulate with the hope of starting the process in those countries. Or they turned around or said they would need to call or contact them in Embassy by email. Messages were filled with no response or generic response that they say that embassies cannot help.
In one email, Omagh described in detail why he had to run away from his country, write “Please don’t let me return to Afghanistan, a place where there is no way to survive.”
“The Embassy of Canada in Panama does not offer visa or immigration services, and not the services for refugees. We are not allowed to respond to visa or immigration,” “reacts”, “react”.
At the British Embassy, protective guards asylum seekers and pamphlet reads “emergency assistance for British people.” The Swiss Consulate told a group that they would have to reach out in the Embassy in Costa Rica, and the migrants handed a piece of paper with general telephone lines and emails printed from Embassy Website Embassy.
Canadian, British and Australian diplomats in Panama did not respond to a comment request from the associated press. The Swiss consulate denied that they turned to the asylum seekers.
Migrants traveled in half of the world, they reached the American border in which they searched asylum and found them in Panama instead, in the country some crosses months earlier on the road to the US
Many Deposophers said that they would be open to Asylum in Panama, but they would also be difficult, if not impossible, to be impossible, that it would be impossible, that it could not be awarded the refuge in the central American nation.
Álvaro Botero, among those who stand up for migrants in the Inter-American Commission on the Embassy, as such assistance are often offered only in extreme cases of political persecution, and other governments can fear the tensions with Trump Administration.
“It’s crucial that these people are not forgotten,” Botero said. “They never asked to be sent to Panama, and now they are in Panama, without the clue, without knowing what their future will be and cannot return to their countries.”
Trump Administration has at the same time Closed Legal Roads to the US on its southern borderHe has increased his deportation program, suspended his refugee relocation programAs well as funding organizations that could potentially help migrants who are now stuck in Panama.
Over the weekend, Trump Administration sent more than 200 Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador In order to maintain a maximum security gang prison, stating that they were expelled were part of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang without providing evidence.
On Thursday, migrants visited the Office of the Panama UN refugee agency. Omagh said that they were told that the Agency could not help them seek asylum in other countries due to the limitations by the Panama government. The UN officer told them that they could help start the asylum process in Panama, but warned that Panamova government would be very unlikely to accept their claim, Omagh said.
The UN International Organization for Migration and the Refugee Agency did not immediately answer the comment requests by the AP.
On the same day, Filippo Grandi, the Head of the UN Refugees, warned that the cuts of US government would injure refugee services around the world.
“We complained to the Member States to respect their displaced people’s obligations. Now the time for solidarity, not withdrawal,” Grands said in the statement.
Deutrited, including Omagh concerned that foreign governments and organizations for help passing their hands.
Omagh said that as atheist and a member of the ethnic minority group in Afghanistan known as Hazar, returning home under the rule of Taliban would mean death. He only went to the United States after trying to live in Pakistan, Iran and other countries for years, but a refused visas.
Russian Aleksandr Surgin, also, among the groups seeking in embassies, he said he left his country as he opened the war in Ukraine in the Social Media, and Government Officers could be in prison or fought Russian troops in Ukraine.
When asked Thursday, what would do next, he replied simply: “I hope for nothing more.”
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Janetsky reported Mexico City.
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