An ocean-view prison for Trump’s deportees: ‘They don’t want us, but they won’t let us go’
The U.S. president’s hardline policies have impacted the Darién Gap, which is now detaining both Venezuelans who have given up on the trip north and deported individuals from Asian countries
Exhausted after traveling through several countries, excluded from any legal protection and desperate to escape their confinement, hundreds of migrants have been detained in Lajas Blancas and San Vicente, two communities in Darién, the province that marks where Panama disappears into the impenetrable jungle that forms its border with Colombia. Until the new U.S. president took office last January, both places had been overflowing with people crossing the jungle, heading north. Now, they are full of women, children and others who have been deported or are simply terrified by Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant crusade.
