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Migration through Panama resumes after pandemic lockdown
The Associated Press ^ | February 10, 2021 | By JUAN ZAMORANO

Posted on 02/10/2021 1:44:18 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

SAN VICENTE, Panama (AP) — After nearly a year stalled in migrant camps at the edge of the jungle, hundreds of migrants have begun to move across Panama and into neighboring Costa Rica in recent weeks.

Panama closed its borders last March to try to slow the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly 2,000 migrants suddenly found their years-long journey toward the United States suspended.

But on Jan. 29, Panama announced it was reopening its land borders, setting off a surge of migration through the dense jungle covering the Colombia-Panama border.

Paul Saenz, a 27-year-old electrician from Haiti, flew to Ecuador in December. He then took a bus to Colombia near the Panama border, joined other Haitian migrants and crossed the jungle into Panama in three days. He said he wanted to make it to the U.S. to help his family back in Haiti.

The new U.S. administration with a kinder tone toward immigrants gave him hope.

“I hope it goes well for us,” he said. “This president (Joe Biden) is better than the other who was a little harder.”

Ovidia Fernández, left Havana, Cuba two years ago with her daughter Anabel. They spent time in Guyana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. They arrived in San Vicente on Sunday after walking through the jungle for 13 days.

“There could be a chance of entering the United States,” she said. “There are people who believe that with the change (of administration) there’s hope.”

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; caravans; covid; election2020; illegalaliens; immigration; invasion

1 posted on 02/10/2021 1:44:18 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“This president (Joe Biden) is better than the other who was a little harder.”
Thanx Joe. Illegals are pouring in across the border by the 1000’s right now.


2 posted on 02/10/2021 2:07:10 PM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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3 posted on 02/10/2021 2:08:55 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But of course, the world doesn’t (and didn’t!) stop because of really bad sniffles.


4 posted on 02/10/2021 2:13:11 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: duckman

Every single one is a Biden voter.


5 posted on 02/10/2021 2:13:25 PM PST by KC_Lion
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To: KC_Lion

“Every single one is a Biden voter.”
Also bringing in more covid virus and every other disease mentionable.


6 posted on 02/10/2021 2:16:39 PM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What jobs are they going to get? Pipeline and oil workers are now agricultural and landscape laborers


7 posted on 02/10/2021 2:21:02 PM PST by Fai Mao (Biden is a pedophile, Kamala is a #%¥π.)
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To: duckman

We’re back to where we were 10+ yrs ago, plus the CCP Red Hunan Death Flu. Swell..


8 posted on 02/10/2021 2:21:45 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Borders wide open.
DC occupied for treasonous national guard.

May God stop the heart or every national guards man in DC.


9 posted on 02/10/2021 2:37:11 PM PST by NoLibZone (Any Guard in DC are traitors. I don't pray hope for their safety.They passed the test and will shoot)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pandemics don’t affect migrants or Black Lives Matter protestors, according to Biden-approved scientists.


10 posted on 02/10/2021 2:51:05 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now the cheap labor GOP and the illegal voters for the Dems can start pouring in again to help destroy what is left of the U.S. middle class. Millions are unemployed, and that’s the way the elites like it or more likely, they don’t even care enough to note the existence of the unemployed.


11 posted on 02/10/2021 2:54:57 PM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Flights from Europe...

We better check you out.

Walk-ins from Mexico and Central America...

Well come on in. What took you so long?

12 posted on 02/10/2021 2:57:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because it is my responsibility as a tax payer to ensure some Haitian illegal invader gets free stuff to send back to his family in haiti.


13 posted on 02/10/2021 3:11:59 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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