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Panama has begun installing barbed wire to block crossings used by U.S.-bound migrants to pass through the Darién Gap, according to a report.

Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia were elected by the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to serve two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), taking over five rotating “non-permanent” membership slots from Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Switzerland, and Mozambique.

Frank Ábrego, recently tapped to be Panama’s next public security minister, outlined on Thursday the upcoming government’s planned first steps to crack down on U.S-bound migrants that cross through the dangerous Darién Gap jungle trail.

President-Elect of Panama José Raúl Mulino reiterated his plans to deport U.S-bound migrants who cross Panama through the Darien Gap.

Independent journalist Michael Yon reports on the situation in Panama’s perilous Darien Gap.

Biden’s border chief is expanding his migrant transfer camps in Panama, even as he says he will clamp down on the global migrants who are using the camps to reach the United States.

President Joe Biden’s border chief is shutting down the deadly Darien Gap jungle trail in Panama that he built for migrants in 2021 — just as a huge wave of northbound migrants is overwhelming his “CBP One” border management system.

A busload of at least 39 migrants were killed in Panama on a migration path created — and indirectly funded — by President Joe Biden’s homeland security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.

More Chinese economic migrants are joining the scramble for the United States as President Joe Biden’s deputies widen legal loopholes in the southern border, according to a U.S.-funded news agency. 

A pre-candidate for Panama’s 2024 presidential election named Dimitri Flores filmed himself traveling inside a helicopter as it crashed into a Panamanian mountainside on August 10, Brazil’s Universo Online (UOL) media outlet reported on Wednesday, noting that the politician survived the crash along with four other passengers and the helicopter’s pilot.

President Joe Biden’s border chief has opened a new route for the global migrants seeking jobs and housing in the United States.

Axios.com reported that President Joe Biden’s border chief is “concerned” about the risks of removing the Title 42 border barrier. 

Thousands of migrants die as they walk through the Panama jungle to reach President Joe Biden’s half-open border, says Michael Yon, a veteran American journalist who interviewed many migrants on the deadly trail through the Darien Gap.

A World War II Navy veteran is traveling to Pearl Harbor in search of his neighbor’s grave ahead of the 80th anniversary of Japan’s attack.

Panama’s foreign minister warns that as many as 60,000 Haitian migrants are likely headed to the U.S. after passing through her country. The new wave of Haitians follows the release by the Biden Administration of thousands from the Del Rio brdige camp crisis earlier this month.

Bandits have raped at least 180 migrants since May, including children, as they walked through the deadly and lawless jungle separating Panama and Colombia on their way to President Joe Biden’s open border, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Colombia and Panama agreed to limit the flow of U.S.-bound migrants from various continents transiting through their territory to 650 per day.

Senior U.S. officials made a surprise visit to Mexico Tuesday to discuss bilateral cooperation on reducing illegal migrants crossing into the U.S. in record numbers.

Egypt is set to release the MV Ever Given over 100 days since the megaship was refloated after blocking the Suez Canal for six days.

The U.S. State Department is helping Panama smuggle U.S.-bound illegal migrants from Haiti, Cuba, and outside the Americas.

Fishermen on the Gulf of Morrosquillo in Colombia have rescued several groups of Bangladeshi nationals, all apparently shipwrecked after their makeshift vessel en route north collapsed, Colombian media reported Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s lenient immigration policies are attracting migrants from outside the Americas, who cross a dangerous Panamanian jungle to reach the U.S., a move that is reportedly resulting in the death of one out of every ten who dare take that route.

Panama is reportedly struggling to handle a significant surge of migrants from outside the Americas entering their country illegally en route to the U.S. amid the Biden administration’s lenient border policy that has driven a record number of people to try to enter the United States.

Inmates inside a prison in Panama are using cats and other animals to smuggle small packages of drugs into the facility. The animals are conditioned to enter the prison expecting to be fed.

U.S. officials are working with Panama’s government to shut down the growing flow of migrants from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, says Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal authorities have confiscated an incredible 16.5 tons of cocaine from a ship at a port in South Philadelphia.

Pope Francis said Friday that Jesus still suffers abandonment in the world in the persons of migrants and all whom society rejects.

Pope Francis told journalists that fear of migrants is “making us crazy,” when asked Wednesday what he thought about the proposed border wall between the United States and Mexico.

In keeping with the priorities of Pope Francis, World Youth Day 2019 will focus on immigration, the environment, and the role of women in the Church, according to event organizers.

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s tour of the Spanish-speaking world continued on Friday with his arrival in Argentina but, in preparation for his next stop, Xi penned an editorial published in Panama arguing that China and Panama had over 160 years of shared history.

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping will visit Panama next week in a bid to expand his regime’s growing influence over the Americas, China’s foreign ministry announced on Friday.

A photo emerged showing Democrat Congressional candidate George Scott (PA-10) pointing a gun at an American soldier in what was allegedly a prank about handling captives.

Multiple Chinese government media outlets used their opinion pages Sunday and Monday to attack Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for warning Latin American countries to stay away from Beijing’s predatory loan offers, calling American concerns “malicious nonsense.”

The State Department has recalled the ambassadors to three countries who recently cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan under pressure from China. 

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