City Panama – After weeks of sad and criticism of human rights, Panama played dozens of migrants on Saturday who were held weeks in a remote camp after being deported from the United States, saying 30 days to leave the central American nation.
Many are suppressed like Hayatullah Omagh, a 29-year-old who escaped in Afghanistan 2022. year after Taliban took control, in legal limb, attacking.
“We are refugees. We don’t have money. We can’t pay a hotel in the town of Panama, we don’t have a relatives,” Omagh told an associate in the interview. “I can’t go back to Afghanistan under any circumstances … It’s under the control of Taliban, and they want to kill me. How can I go back?”
Authorities said Deporties will have an option Expanding stay for 60 days if they need, but after that many like Omagh don’t know what they will do.
Omagh climbed the bus in the town of Panama, in addition to 65 migrants from China, Russia, Pakistan, Nepal and other peoples, which he wanted to cooperate with Trump’s Administration “to be held by the migration.
Human Rights Groups and lawyers advocating for migrants were waiting at the bus station and abolished to find a released shelter of migrants and other resources. There are other dozens of other people in the camp.
Among those who descend from the bus were migrants who flee violence and repression in Pakistan and Iran, and 27-year-old Nikita Gaponov, who said the community of LGBTQ + and who said it was detained on the US border.
“Once I get off the bus, I’ll sleep on Earth tonight,” Gapon said.
Others again turned their eyes on the north, saying that although they were already deported, they had no other option than to continue after crossing the world to arrive in the US
Deported, mainly from Asian countries, were part of a The job is stuck between the Trump Administration and Panama and Costa Rica As the American government tries to speed up deportations. The Management Board sent hundreds of people, many families with children, in two central American countries as a stop, while authorities organize a way to send them to their countries of origin.
Critics described it as a way to export their deportation process.
The agreement encouraged human rights concerns when hundreds of deported detainees in the hotel in the town of Panama installed notes with their windows that pray for assistance and saying they were scared to scare their countries.
According to the International Refugee Law, people have the right to apply for asylum when fleeing into conflict or persecution.
Those who refused to return home later were sent to the remote camp near Panama border with Colombia, where they spent weeks in bad conditions, they were not accessed by the legal council and did not tell them where they were going next.
Lawyers and human rights defenders warned that Panama and Costa Rica were Converting to “black holes” for deportedAnd he said that their release is in a way that the panamic authorities wash their hands deports due to mounting human rights criticism.
Those who were released on Saturday night, like Omagh, they said they couldn’t go home.
As atheist and a member of the ethnic minority group in Afghanistan as Hazar, he said he returned home under the rule of Taliban after he was killed from the ground – meant to be killed. He only went to the United States after trying to live in Pakistan, Iran and other countries for years, but a refused visas.
Omagh was deported after he introduced him to the US authorities and asking to seek asylum in the United States, which was rejected.
“I hope my hope was freedom. Only freedom,” he said. “They didn’t give me a chance. I asked me to talk to an asylum officer repeatedly and told me” No, no, no, no, no. “
Still, he said the abandonment of the camp was any relief. Omagh and other migrants who talked to the AP in detail scarce food, pushing heat with little relief and aggressive panamian authorities.
In one case, Omagh and others said, the Chinese went to the week of hunger strike. In the second, little unrest broke out because the guards refused to give a migrant phone. A mess, they said, suppressed armed guards.
Panaman authorities denied the accusations of the camp conditions, but blocked journalists to access the camp and canceled the planned visit of the journalist last week.
While international help organizations said to organize a trip to the third country for people who did not want to return home, the Panama authorities said that people were released already refused to help.
Omagh said he was told in the camp, could send him to the third country if he gives people people from Afghan visas. He said it would be incredibly difficult because several nations open their doors to people with Afghan passport.
He said he asked the authority several times if he could ask asylum in Panama and said he was told that “we do not accept asylum”.
“None of them wants to stay in Panama. They want to go to the United States,” said Carlos Ruiz-Hernandez, Deputy Foreign Minister Panama, in an interview with the AP last month.
This was the case for some, like a Chinese woman who talked to the AP on the state of anonymity, fearing the consequences of Panamanian authorities.
After exiting the bus, the first thing she wanted to do is find Coca-Cola. Then Back Back Back
“I still want to continue to go to the United States and fulfill your American dream,” she said.
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Janetsky reported Mexico City.
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2025-03-09 05:02:00
