Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A boat departs to Colombia from Gardi Sugdub on Panama’s Caribbean coast, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, carrying ...

They crossed oceans to get to the U.S., fleeing conflict, religious persecution, poverty and government crackdowns in ...

The boat was one of three that had taken off from the Port of Llano Carti toward La Miel, Panama, near the border with Colombia. The other two boats suspended their journeys due to “adverse ...

Migrant smuggling dynamics in northern Colombia are shifting in response to a US immigration crackdown, disrupting criminal ...

“Panama cannot end up becoming a black hole for deported migrants,” said Juan Pappier, deputy director of Human Rights Watch ...

More than 100 asylum seekers from around the world sent to Panama from the United States have no sense how long they will be ...

trekking days along the perilous migrant passage dividing Colombia and Panama with a simple goal: Seek asylum in the U.S. Now, boat-by-boat, those migrants – mainly from the Andean nations of ...

Panama said on Tuesday that it's working to formalize a route long used to smuggle migrants on the way to the U.S., which is now being increasingly used to return migrants to South America in a ...

A growing number of Latin American migrants who have given up hope of reaching the United States are returning to their home ...

Before dawn Thursday, Pereira and other migrants boarded wooden boats that carried them to near the Colombia-Panama border where they planned to continue their journey. They paid up to $200 each ...

have paid boats to carry them back to South America along the Caribbean Sea pressing up against Panama. Migrants are then dropped off in northern Colombia, where many continue on their journeys.