{"id":244919,"date":"2025-02-23T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/no-exit\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T11:11:06","slug":"no-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/23\/no-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"No Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/22\/world\/panama-oneimage-promo\/panama-oneimage-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"No Exit\" title=\"No Exit\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In furtive messages, sent through handmade signs, hidden phones and gestures behind glass, some of the migrants expressed a sense of constant, overwhelming fear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most did not want their faces to be seen, fearful of repercussions for being photographed by journalists. We did as much window-to-window communication as we could.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the central room, Artemis Ghasemzadeh, a 27-year-old migrant from Iran, scrawled \u201cHelp\u201d on the window in lipstick. She was one of the few who did not conceal their face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Outside, my colleague, the New York Times reporter Julie Turkewitz, held up a notebook with her phone number, written for the migrants to see from their rooms \u2014 and message if they could.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We learned that the 10 Iranian migrants had converted to Christianity, which according to Iran\u2019s Shariah law, is a crime punishable by death. They had illegally entered the United States in the last month, and were detained in San Diego before being deported to Panama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We learned, too, that many of the migrants had arrived at the U.S. border from such countries as Afghanistan and China, hoping to seek asylum. Now they are trapped in Panama, where the Trump administration sent them because those nations will not accept them, or for other reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials in Panama say they are adhering to international protocols in their treatment of the migrants, and that two United Nations organizations oversee the migrants. Lawyers in the country say it is illegal to detain people without a court order for more than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the room below Ms. Ghasemzadeh, we established contact with three Chinese nationals. One man wrote \u201cChina\u201d and his phone number in toothpaste on the window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He held up a Chinese-language Bible and a crucifix to the window. He gave his surname as Wang, but in an interview expressed fear about being identified, saying it could be used against him if he were forcibly returned. \u201cI would rather jump off a plane than go back to China,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since the above picture was taken last week, officials in Panama have said that more than half of the migrants have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/18\/us\/politics\/deportations-migrants-panama.html\" title=\"\">agreed to be deported<\/a> to their countries of origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Among them are the two Indian migrants, who entered the United States on Jan. 29 after a two-year journey, intending to seek asylum. Guards restrained them with handcuffs on their feet and hands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview from the hotel, they said they had signed papers to be deported back to India, and that they would not complain. They had been given medical treatment, food and a place to sleep, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Migrants who did not agree to be deported would be taken to a detention camp on the outskirts of the jungle known as the Dari\u00e9n Gap, Panama\u2019s security minister said. He described the decision to hold the migrants as part of an accord with the United States. Nearly 100 have already been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/19\/world\/americas\/us-migrants-panama-jungle-camp.html\" title=\"\">moved from the hotel to the camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We have yet to see the migrants there, and even in downtown Panama City we could only see so much. Some people closed their curtains or stayed out of view. To the right of Mr. Wang\u2019s room, someone paced back and forth between the bed and a night stand, the lights off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We glimpsed just restless moving feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Alan Yuhas<!-- --> contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/23\/world\/americas\/panama-migrants-hotel-photo.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In furtive messages, sent through handmade signs, hidden phones and gestures behind glass, some of the migrants expressed a sense of constant, overwhelming fear. Most did not want their faces to be seen, fearful of repercussions for being photographed by journalists. We did as much window-to-window communication as we could. 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