The migrants hailed from 10 mostly Asian countries the U.S. has difficulty deporting migrants to directly. Panama is being used as a stopover.

watch as people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. Credit: AP/Mark Schiefelbein The State Department describes El Salvador's ...

Rubio arrived in San Salvador shortly after watching a U.S.-funded deportation flight with 43 migrants leave from Panama for Colombia. That came a day after Rubio delivered a warning to Panama ...

(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) People board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) People arrive ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said late Monday that El Salvador’s president has offered to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, walks with Panama's Minister of Public Security Frank Alexis Abrego, after watching people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any ...

The deportation flight Rubio watched being loaded in Panama City was carrying migrants detained by Panamanian authorities after illegally crossing the Darien Gap from Colombia. The State ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters after watching people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark ...

PANAMA CITY — (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio viewed a deportation flight carrying 43 migrants before it took off from Panama on Monday as President Donald Trump's administration ...