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Panama President-elect Pledges To Deport Migrants Who Cross Darien Gap

Panamanian president-elect Jose Raul Mulino (L) leaves the Presidential Palace after a meeting on Tuesday (Credit: AFP)

Panama will deport US-bound migrants who enter the country through the notoriously dangerous stretch of jungle known as the Darien Gap, president-elect Jose Raul Mulino said Thursday.

"In order to do away with the odyssey that is the Darien Gap ... with international aid we will begin a process of repatriation, in full compliance with the human rights of all the people there," Mulino said in a speech to the election body that formally declared him president after last Sunday's polls.

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