Immigration

Migrants who were held in a Panamanian immigration shelter after being deported from the U.S. embraced upon arriving in Panama City on Saturday, March 8, 2025, after authorities gave them 30 days to leave the country. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

They crossed the world to reach the US. Now deported under Trump, they’re stuck in Panama

Over the past week, Panama’s government has released dozens of migrants from around the world who were deported from the U.S.
 
Chancellor Christian Stocker signs papers during the swearing-in ceremony of the Federal Government in the presidential office at the Hofburg Palace, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Austria’s new government is stopping family reunions immediately for migrants

 
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Government asks that detained Columbia student’s legal fight be moved to New Jersey or Louisiana

 
Protesters march on campus against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Berkeley, Calif. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

White House pressures Columbia University as it seeks to deport pro-Palestinian activists

 
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on birthright citizenship in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Appeals court won’t lift block on Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship

 

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Protesters in New York demand release of Palestinian activist detained by federal immigration authorities

Protesters marched on the streets of New York on Monday to demand the release of a Palestinian activist arrested by federal immigration authorities Mahmoud Khalil, who played a prominent role in Columbia University’s protests against Israel, was arrested Saturday.
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AP Explains: Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil arrested by ICE, faces deportation

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead protests at Columbia University

Panama releases dozens of migrants deported from the US

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Protesters demonstrate in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil at Washington Square Park, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

What to know about Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia protester arrested by ICE and facing deportation

 
FILE -An aerial photograph taken by a drone shows migrants entering a detention center for processing following earlier court rejections, in the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj, File)

The EU wants to increase deportations and supports ‘return hubs’ in third countries

 
In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the Office of Military Commissions building used for Periodic Review Board hearings stands, on April 18, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Immigration officials defend authority to hold migrants at Guantanamo Bay

 
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem walks past journalists at the White House, Monday, March 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

How the White House hired Republican political firms to launch an anti-migrant ad campaign

 
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Arrest of Palestinian activist stirs questions about protections for students and green card holders

 
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks to employees at the Department of Homeland Security, Jan. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, file)

Homeland Security overhauls its asylum phone app. Now it’s for ‘self-deportation’

 
Protesters gather for a demonstration in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, Monday, March 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Trump warns that arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be ‘first of many’

 
Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is on the Columbia University campus in New York at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, file)

Immigration agents arrest Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests

 
Migrants, mostly from Asian countries, arrived in Panama City on Saturday, March 8, 2025, after spending weeks in a temporary Panamanian immigration camp following their deportation from the U.S. and being released on the condition that they leave the country within 30 days. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama releases dozens of detained deportees from US into limbo following human rights criticism

 
Venezuelan migrants returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S. rest on the street in Panama City, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama to allow 112 migrants deported from the US to move about freely in the country

 
Migrants stand on the deck of the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti, moored at the Catania harbor, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy’s top court orders government to compensate migrants who were stranded at sea for days

 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN says 186 missing and at least 2 dead after migrant boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti

 
An American flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops, Aug. 25, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Federal judge won’t order immigration officials to change school arrests policy

 
CORRECTS JACKSON'S TITLE AT TIME IMAGE WAS TAKEN - FILE - Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-N.C., Democratic candidate for North Carolina attorney general, speaks at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

North Carolina Republicans seek to force top Democrats to fall in line with Trump agenda

 
Immigrants seeking asylum walk at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, Aug. 23, 2019, in Dilley, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen

 
New York City Mayor Eric Adams takes his seat at the witness table during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Republicans hammer mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York over ‘sanctuary city’ policies

 
Sister JoAnn Persch, 90, a nun with the Sisters of Mercy, prays with others during a vigil outside a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in Broadview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

These nuns advocated for immigrant rights for 40 years — now in their 90s, they’re not slowing down

 
Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters during a visit to the U.S. border with Mexico Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Eagle Pass, Texas, as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard listens. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP)

Vance promotes Trump’s ‘whole government’ immigration crackdown during visit to US-Mexico border

 
This combination photo shows New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Feb. 20, 2025, in New York, from left, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, July 25, 2024, in Chicago, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, May 3, 2024, in Denver and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Nov. 2, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo)

Republicans target 4 ‘sanctuary’ cities as Trump pushes mass deportations

 
Idaho Gov. Brad Little listens at a press conference about border policies in Eagle Pass, Texas, Feb. 4, 2024. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Immigrant labor fuels US economy but Trump’s crackdown mostly ignores it

 
A boat transporting migrants departs the Caribbean coastal village of Miramar, Panama, for the Colombian border, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, as migrants return from southern Mexico after abandoning hopes of reaching the U.S. in a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Costa Rica and Panama coordinate to move southbound migrants

 

Tunisia rescues 64 migrants from capsizing boat off eastern Mediterranean coast

 
In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Attorneys are suing to keep 10 migrants out of Guantanamo Bay as others say they were abused there

 
Two humanitarian parole beneficiaries, a mother and her son from Venezuela who were sponsored by Sandra McAnany, and the husband/father whom they reunited with enjoy the North Carolina Zoo, June 1, 2024, in Randolph County, NC. (Sandra McAnany via AP)

Trump cutoff of humanitarian parole for immigrants from Ukraine, 6 other countries challenged

 
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left, stands with Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox outside city hall, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Border czar makes the city of Boston his latest immigration target

 
Vice President JD Vance, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, acknowledges the pope’s criticism of US immigration crackdown

 
Ron Gochez, a teacher volunteering with Union del Barrio, an organization advocating for immigrant rights, is reflected in a side mirror as he searches for ICE activity in a neighborhood in Los Angeles Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Volunteers use bullhorns and sirens to warn immigrants when ICE is in their area

 
Víctor Razuri, 41, from Peru, poses in a ham drying plant in Guissona, Lleida, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Inside a cavernous production plant in northeastern Spain, among millions of legs of Spanish ham traveling down hooks and conveyer belts, people from 62 nationalities work side by side to keep a successful food company humming. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)

Foreign workers help Spain’s economic growth outpace the US and the rest of Europe

 
Law enforcement officers detain migrants in the area in Coral Gables, Fla., Jan. 28, 2025. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP File)

Florida ups the stakes for crimes by immigrants in the US illegally

 
Venezuelan migrant Naomi Diaz sits on a boat departing from Panama's Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Migrants are returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by President Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ‘black hole’ for migrants and deportees from US, observers warn

 
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