The migrants were deported to Panama by Trump, they find themselves cut off and forgotten

When the first buses of the newly released migrants this month arrived in Panama from a detention camp on the edge of the forest, three people were clearly sick. One of the lawyers said that one of them needed to treat HIV, as another insulin was running out, and a third was suffering from seizures.

Confusion, chaos and fear prevailed. “What will I do?” One of the migrants asked loudly. “Where will I go?”

These are questions posed by dozens of immigrants who were deported to Panama last month by the Trump administration, and they are part of the president’s comprehensive efforts to expel millions of people from the United States.

Initially, the Panamanian officials were Closed From about 300 people in a hotel. After that, those who did not accept return to their countries of origin were sent Camp guarding on the edge of the forest. finally, After the case Certain human rights groups, the Panamanian authorities I released the two deporteesTheir buses to the city of Panama.

Now, the remaining immigrants – from Iran, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan and other places – are free but they were cut off in a country that he does not want, and a lot of sleep in the school gym that was provided by an auxiliary group, without any real feeling of what to do after that.

The interviews with 25 of the deportees presented a revealing view of those who are expelled from the United States by the Trump administration, and what happens as soon as they arrive in Central America.

The region has emerged as a major leader in the deportation machines that Trump president tries to run to a high degree.

But Washington’s decision to send immigrants from all over the world to Central America has raised legal questions, and the governments have apparently prepared to receive migrants and left people in countries where they have no long -term support or legal support networks.

Most immigrants in Panama said that when they arrived in the United States, they told officials that they were afraid to return to their countries, but they were never given an opportunity to officially ask for asylum.

“The migrants” were properly removed “from the United States. She added, “Not one of these foreigners confirms the fear of returning to their homeland at any time during treatment or custody.”

“The United States government is coordinating for the welfare of these foreigners by humanitarian groups in Panama,” she said.

Since assuming his post, Mr. Trump has sent hundreds of migrants from all over the world to Panama, Costa Rica and El Salvador, although it is unclear whether the United States government has been planning to continue to do so.

“Whether there is more aircraft from the United States or not, I do not know,” said Raul Mulino, President of Panama, Raul Mulino, President of Panama, this month. “I am not very tilted to do this, because they leave us with the problem.”

Among those who have now been triggered in Panama, Hayat Allah Zazay, 34, a man who said he worked as an Afghan army officer, and works alongside the American Special Forces and American advisers. He said that after the Taliban took over, he fled to Pakistan, then Iran, then traveled to Brazil and toured southern and central America to reach the American border.

Among the deportees are also Iranian Christians who said they are threatened at home, and many Afghan women from the ethnic minority of the hedge who say they are facing persecution during the Taliban era.

Another reference is Simeganat, 37 years old, a woman who is traveling on her own from Ethiopia, she said she was targeting her government because her race prompted the authorities to doubt working with a rebel group. She said that she fled after she had caught fire at her home, killed her father and brother and the police told her that she would be the next.

She said, “I was not a person who wanted to escape from my country.” “I owned a restaurant and I had a good life.”

“We are human, but we have no place to live in,” she said about the people of Amhara.

She and many other immigrants, for fear of the safety of relatives in the country, asked not to be recognized by their full names.

Most migrants described the crossing of the Mexican American border early this year, being held for about two weeks in detention, then they were done by US officials and placed on a plane to an unknown destination. Some have said that they were told that they were heading from California to Texas; Most of them said they had never given an opportunity to ask for asylum officially.

A 19 -year -old woman from Afghanistan said that US officials allowed her parents and five younger siblings crossing the border to the United States. She said that the only brother over 18 years old was separated from them, was arrested and transferred to Panama.

Some said they owe hundreds or thousands of dollars to the people who helped them finance their trips.

Simon said: “If I return to Ethiopia without their money, they will kill me.”

Panama gave the permits of the deportees for a period of 30 days, which allows them to stay in the country at the present time and give them the option to extend their residence to 90 days.

They said that while Panama had an asylum program, migrants received mixed messages about the possibility of long -term legal protection in the country.

Another option is for individuals to find another country that will take them. Silvia Serena, a lawyer who is part of the team that is part of the team that is part of the team that is part of the team that is part of the team that is part of the team that is part of the team that requires the effort of each case separately, said that this will require that the legal effort is litigate That called for Panama’s detention of the hotel and the border camp illegal.

Mrs. Sirna said that she was an interview with migrants to find out the assistance that her team could provide, but she warned that it might be very difficult for people to find welcoming countries.

In the interviews, three Iranian departments said that they intend to circumvent and return to the United States and were already negotiating with a smuggler. The fourth had already left for the American border.

One is Negein, 24, who knew herself as gay women from Iran, where gays publicly face government persecution. She said: “At least if I am staying idle, I will be inside an American detention camp and on American soil.”

The smuggler quoted one woman at a price of $ 5,000 to obtain it across the US -Mexican border in Tijuana, and $ 8,000 to secure a visa and put it on a plane to Canada.

Currently, most of the group remains in the gym that turned into a top outside the city of Panama, which is run by two Christian charitable collections. Migrants sleep on thin ranks and eat meals of plastic foam containers. A group of them went from the door to the door at different embassies last week asking for help, but they said they were rejected in each one.

Ilias Corinigo, who works with a relief group, FE Y ALEGRíA, was not prohibited in criticizing the administration of the new United States.

“We believe that the Trump administration policies are part of a migrant grinding machine like meat,” he said. “It is clear that this is a serious problem of inhumanity.”

A smaller group of deportees, most of them families who have children, remained at a hotel in Panama, which was paid by UNICEF. Among them is a married couple, Muhammad and Mona, Christians from Iran. One night, when their 8 -year -old son collapsed, both parents bowed to him and hit his face.

Muhammad said: “He does not go to school, and life has become frequent for him.”

They said that the spouses had thought about re -introducing the United States illegally, and they eventually decided that they could not put their child with more suffering. They reserve the hope that he will be a lawyer in the Mrs. Sirna team The Trump administration can be convinced to grant them entry as persecuted Christians.

Muhammad said that if he did not work, he was thinking about staying in Panama and he was already looking for work.

Not far from the hotel recently, Artemis Gasimzadeh, 27, entered another Iranian Christian, a church with white walls and kneeling in Pew. Mrs. Gasimzadeh Become a leader From the group after I posted a video on the Internet of detention at the Panama City Hotel, begged the world for help.

She said that a priest offered to the migrant group north of Panama, where he would be welcome to stay as long as they were in the country. She added that the houses have kitchens, and they will not have a curfew. She was thinking about the show.

“I don’t know what will happen next,” Mrs. Gasimzadeh said. “I don’t know my next step. At the present time, we are in the hands of God.”

Reports previously contributed Alex E. Hernandez From the city of Panama, Rohullah Khabalak from Vancouver, British Colombia, and a correspondent in the New York Times of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.