US officials are going to work with Panamanian officials to interdict asylum seekers and judge their asylum case to stay 8n Panama. If it is not deemed appropriate, they will be extradited out of Panama (I assume back south). The article says we now have a treaty with 19 countries to do this in an effort to get people stopped well south of the US.
Biden plans to deploy immigration officers to Panama to help screen and deport U.S.-bound migrants, officials say
Nearly 500,000 migrants, half of them women and children, have crossed into Panama this year through the notorious Darién jungle. Many of them have sought to reach the U.S.
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