She was expelled from the United States, but still thought America would help. She was wrong

By Omar Jiménez and Elizabeth González She asked to be identified only as “Ambo,” for fear of being recognized in her home country. “Life is very difficult for me,” she told CNN from a school converted into a shelter on a hot, humid day in Panama City. Over the ambient noise of bladed fans trying to cool the large room, she explained that she left her home country of Cameroon because of “political problems,” fearing that she would be “sentenced …

She was expelled from the United States, but still thought America would help. She was wrong

Stuck in Panama are asylum-seekers from places like Iran, Afghanistan, Russia, China, Sri Lanka. They are caught in limbo – expelled from the United States, but unable to go back to their home countries out of fear of being persecuted or killed.

The United States and Panama carried out a joint kidnapping operation against 299 people from Asia and Africa, locking them up at the Decapolis Hotel in Panama City. READ ALSO: Diosdado Cabello denounces U.S. abuses against Venezuelan migrants For 30 days, entire families were illegally detained in armed custody, without access to lawyers or communication with the outside world. Images of migrants asking for help from the windows expose the crim…

New Evidence Details Credible Fear of Return for Individuals Detained and Expelled from the United States to Panama

Individuals expelled from the United States to Panama in February 2025 without being allowed to present asylum claims appear to have psychological and physical symptoms consistent with their reports of torture, mistreatment, and/or persecution in their countries of origin, according to new evidence from Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) submitted today by the Global Strategic Litigation Council (GSLC) to the Inter-American Commission of Human Ri…

A new plane from Honduras with 178 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States, including women, landed early this Friday in Venezuela, as part of the restoration of deportation flights agreed with Washington after a month of suspension. The group is the second to arrive in Venezuela after the resumption of these flights last weekend. Venezuela and the United States, with broken relations since 2019, were accused of boycotting the deport…

A plane with 178 Venezuelan migrants -165 men and 13 women - deported by the U.S. landed this Friday morning, the second group repatriated after the resumption of these flights, announced last weekend by Caracas.The plane of the state airline Conviasa arrived at the international airport Simón Bolívar de Maiquetía -which serves Caracas-, in the coastal state of La Guaira (north), where the owner of Interior, Diosdado Cabello, received the return…