According to the New York Times, Christian converts from Islam are one of the immigrants to Christianity deported from the United States from hostile countries.
The February 18th article reported that over 100 people were among the more than 100 people in Panama’s military last week for Panama, including immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and Uzbekistan. did. A world watchlist of open doors in 50 countries where becoming a Christian is the most dangerous.
Leaving Islam can be punished by death under Sharia (Islamic law) and ranks 9th on the list.
Around 340 other migrants flew from the United States on three military aircraft, trapped in the towering Dekapolis Hotel Panama in Panama City. The reporter contacted her and learned that she, including her three children, and her Christian compatriots, were desperate to get help from the outside world.
Authorities had seized their passports and robbed most of them from their mobile phones before being locked up inside a hotel protected by armed personnel and prohibited from seeking legal assistance. An Iranian woman told The Times that one of the other deportees attempted suicide at a hotel. Another person broke his leg trying to escape.
None of the hotel’s immigrants have a criminal record, Panama’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Luis Harnandez, told The Times.
When Iranian women left Iran in December, they quickly knew that President Trump would banish immigrants, but recorded their conversion to Christianity as an educated person with no criminal history He reportedly said he knew that. In search of a better life in the US, she first flew to Mexico to pay smugglers $3,000 and helped climb the US border wall, and was arrested soon after, she told The Times Ta.
Like other deportees who fear retaliatory measures if they return to their homeland, she told the Times “only miracles can save us.”
Another Christian convert from Iran told reporters she was terrified to see her 8-year-old son put on her parents while in the military. Her husband said to them when his wife and son cried out in the flight, “Jesus said, ‘If you take your eyes off me, I will not take you off.” So I always signal that to my wife and look at him. ”
Homeland Security spokesman Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement at a press conference, according to the Times.
Louis Harnandez said Panama is temporarily detaining deportees at the hotel in response to the Trump administration’s demands to ensure Panama hastily robbed them. The US administration, which threatened to take over the Panama Canal, put the Central American country under intense pressure, the Times noted.
After US authorities began deporting hundreds of migrants to Panama from countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa on February 12, Panama is now responsible for what to do with them.
“Since foreign immigrants are no longer in the US soil, Washington is not legally required to ensure that they have the opportunity to be treated humanely or seek asylum,” the Times said. reported.
The newspaper reported that Panama’s lawyers have said they cannot be legally detained in the country for more than 24 hours without a court order. Citing Panama’s President Jose Raul Murino, the Times said the exile was expected to be sent to a makeshift camp called San Vicente in the Darien Gap Jungle.
Calling Panama a “leader and strategic partner in immigration management,” Louis Hernandez reportedly stated that his government and the United States had agreed to an agreement and that he “respects human rights.”
The UN’s International Migration Agency is one of two UN agencies tasked with overseeing Denner while in Panama, but spokesmen for the agency are involved in “detention or restriction of movements.” He said, “If it’s safe, it promotes returns when it’s safe.” According to the times.
A senior UN official told the newspaper that the UN “provides humanitarian and technical support to Panama, but the Panamas have strict control over the exiles, and the process they followed is not entirely clear. “He said.
Costa Rica also retires from the US after Muzafal Chishti, a senior fellow at the Institute for Immigration Policy, said it was a “a whole new era” in Washington, which pressures the Times to join other countries. We have announced that we will be welcoming someone. Deportation machine. ”
“The Panama president says the plan is to send people back to their home countries,” the Times reported. “However, it is unclear how Panama will do so if the US cannot easily send it back to a particular country.”
