Posted on 05/29/2015 2:58:12 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
METETÍ, Panama - Ahmed Hassan staggered through dense Panamanian jungle, crazy with thirst, his rubber sandals sliding in the mud, fearing he would die thousands of miles from his homeland in Somalia.
“I told my family I would go to the U.S., that was the plan,” said the 26-year-old truck driver, who said he fled late last year when al-Shabaab militants took his village. He flew to Brazil and made a cross-continental bus trip to Colombia.
The circuitous Panama route has become more attractive, say migration experts, thanks to the easing of visa and asylum requirements in some South American countries and an unwillingness by some governments on the route to carry out mass deportations.
That has opened the door to migrants arriving in South America by plane or cargo ship who head overland toward the isthmus from Brazil.
There is still the journey through Central America and Mexico, but migrants say the Darien is the hardest. “I want to get to the U.S.,” said Hawa Bah, 20, who fled Guinea in West Africa.
African migrants interviewed in Panama said they head to the U.S., rather than Europe, because they believe they are more likely to get a job and refuge there.
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geeeeeeeee I really dont care what happens to them.
Good training for later, when they have to endure the US congress.
IDGAF what happens to them so long as they don’t make it here.
They are cowards and criminals.
Cool. Then going back will be easy.
Silly sillies. They should have hopped on the obama immigrant bus. No snakes, air conditioned, meals and a restroom.
wow. didn’t know this.
STHOOMC
ALL to come here and become DEMOCRATS...
They are... socialist time bombs.. AND Political -VOTE-MINES..
Wish they didn’t make it out of Panama.
They don’t have a right to come here just because they “want” to.
Besides the left continually screams and shrieks about what a terrible place America is.
You’d think they’d be doing everything possible to keep these poor people out of such an awful, unfair, racist hellhole.
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