Important Takeaways:

• Panama’s government announced on Thursday additional deportation flights for migrants apprehended in the Central American nation to Ecuador, India and China, in a bid to reduce the flow of mostly U.S.-bound migration.
• Financed by Washington, the deportation flights kicked off earlier this week with a first planeload of Colombian migrants.
• The flights come less than three months before November’s U.S. presidential election, where unlawful migration has emerged as a major issue.
• Mulino did not specify the legal status of the migrants who will be flown to Ecuador or the two Asian countries, or if they have criminal records.

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