Panama, Colombia to facilitate safer migrant passage to US
US migrants
PanamaandColombiaagreed Friday tofacilitatethe controlled transit of undocumented migrants seeking to reach the United States, in an attempt to slow the surge of people and protect them from organized crime.
The two countries will establish a series of quotas next week of migrants that each nation can receive.
So far this year, 49,000 migrants have crossed the border betweenColombiaandPanama, as many as in the last four years combined, fleeing the crisis caused by the pandemic, poverty and violence in their home countries.
The agreement followed a meeting in the town of Meteti, in southernPanama, attended by Colombian vice president and foreign minister Marta Lucia Ramirez and Panamanian foreign minister Erika Mouynes, in addition to other ministers and senior security officials.
Another Panamanian delegation will travel toColombiaMonday "to determine a number, a quota of migrants" who can "be received in a safe and orderly manner by the Panamanian side," Mouynes said.
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"We are going to regularize a contingent or a daily amount of people who preferably move through a single place, who have a single place of arrival inPanama," Ramirez added.
Both countries will also examine possible transportation alternatives to prevent migrants from having to cross a deadly jungle corridor known as the Darien Gap.
ColombiaandPanamaalso agreed to organize police and judicial cooperation to prevent criminal networks from taking advantage of undocumented migrants to develop their operations.
At an upcoming regional meeting that will include the United States, the two nations will seek to join a regional quota agreement that would allow the controlledpassageof migrants.
The surge in migrants is threatening to overwhelm the care centers Panamanian authorities have set up to care for them after they pass through the Darien Gap.
For several weeks, thousands of migrants, including minors and pregnant women, have been stranded in the Colombian port town of Necocli as they wait for boats to cross into neighboringPanama.
The Gulf of Uraba, onColombia's northern coast, is one of the main transit points for refugees from nearby Latin American nations as well as Africa and Asia.