Panama deported 687 foreigners during the year

As the end of the year approaches the National Immigration Service has announced that in 2023 it deported 687 foreigners, of various nationalities, through methodologies such as charter flights.

In the last deportation, carried out on December 23, 27 people were deported and another three expelled, due to the crimes of aggravated robbery, crimes against the freedom and sexual integrity of a minor, and actions of illicit migrant trafficking.

Throughout the year, various deportation and expulsion operations of migrants have been carried out, as a result of operations such as Operation Oasis, which in September of this year ended with a clandestine prostitution network made up of 12 foreign women, who operated in Penonomé.

Another example of this is Operation Silver, where nine foreign citizens who were practicing prostitution were detained, without having adequate health controls.