The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama

The US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama

President Donald Trump proclaimed an "invasion" of "illegal aliens" at the southern border, claiming authority to explicitly exclude people from the right to seek asylum if doing so would permit

'Nobody Cared, Nobody Listened'—the US Expulsion of Third-Country Nationals to Panama

I went to Panama recently to talk to people the Trump administration had deported there. People are normally deported to their home countries, but none of the 299 people expelled in February were Panamanians. They came from Iran, Russia, China, Eritrea, Cameroon, Afghanistan, and other countries with serious human rights problems. Held for weeks in incommunicado detention, 180 opted to return to their home countries, but their repatriation can h…