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Shop NowDeportees are flowing into Panama at a steady stream. None of them are from the nation. Ones from China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other unfriendly places are being accepted as a courtesy. It’s part of the deal they worked out with Secretary Rubio recently.
Deported to Panama
Panama was happy to confirm that the “first U.S. flight carrying deportees from other nations” has arrived safely and on schedule. The Trump administration took them up on their offer “to act as a stopover for expelled migrants.”
El Presidente is hoping to be allowed to keep his precious canal. That means cooperating with Uncle Sam in every way possible.
On Thursday, February 13, President José Raúl Mulino held a well televised press briefing. He holds one every week but they don’t usually get much coverage outside of Panama.
“Yesterday,” he proudly announced, “a flight from the United States Air Force arrived with 119 people from diverse nationalities of the world.” They’re only being sheltered temporarily, on their way back to country of origin.
As Mulino relates, there were bewildered looking people from China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Afghanistan, among others, making their way down the air stairs and onto the tarmac.
They were quickly and efficiently whisked away to their new accommodations in Panama.
First of three planned
This flight, President Mulino explains, is only the first of three Panama already had planned. They’re only handling some excess overflow until Congress shakes loose more money to Tom Homan.
Numbers aren’t nearly up to administration expectations but that will change as soon as a budget deal is reached. “It’s not something massive,” Mulino confirms. After two more planes arrive they’ll be hosting 360 people.
Once they all arrive in Panama, they’re expected to be transferred out to the jungle of the notorious Darien region.
They aren’t going to be sleeping on the beach and fighting monkeys for the coconuts, they’re being moved to an existing shelter there. None of the ones they’re being sent have a criminal record. The violent ones will be going to El Salvador.
When reporters quizzed El Presidente as to “why Panama was acting as a stopover for these deportations,” Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ruiz Hernández fielded it by replying “that it was something the U.S. government had requested.”
Not only did el Gringo Loco cancel every penny of their foreign aid, he sent Secretary of State Rubio down to explain how they really can yank back control of the canal. By the time he left, they backed out of a big trade deal Panama had with China.
