Nearly 100 migrants, recently deported by the United States to Panama where they had been locked in a hotel, were loaded onto buses Tuesday night and moved to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle, several of the migrants said.
It is unclear how long the group, which was deported under the Trump administration’s sweeping effort to expel unauthorized migrants, will be detained at the jungle camp.
Conditions at the site are primitive, the detainees said. Diseases, including dengue are endemic to the region, and the government has denied access to journalists and aid organizations.
“It looks like a zoo, there are fenced cages,” said one deportee, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, a 27-year-old migrant from Iran, after arriving at the camp following a four-hour drive from Panama City. “They gave us a stale piece of bread. We are sitting on the floor.”
The group includes eight children, according to a person with knowledge of the situation who was not authorized to speak on the record. Lawyers have said it is illegal to detain people in Panama for more than 24 hours without a court order.
I already had the argument about these being on Panama soil, etc.
Don’t care. These are concentration camps.
First it was gitmo, now this, and they are also floating “reparenting camps” for folks with little problems like depression. I haven’t heard him lump in Autism there yet, but I’m sure it’s coming.
Folks can nitpick, but it’s what’s happening, it’s the same energy, and if left unchecked it’s going to be the same result.
What the fuck? Is already starting.
Did they seriously just lock up an Iranian national, in fucking Panama, for being brown and having an irregular immigration status?
Concentration camp
