Juan Forero
Appearances
Apple News Today
What we know about the figure skaters lost in the plane crash
There were no outstanding issues with the justice system in Colombia and there was no outstanding issues with the justice system in the U.S.,
Apple News Today
What we know about the figure skaters lost in the plane crash
He said what others said, which was basically that he'd lost his clothes, they'd taken away his stuff, he was in a cold detention center, that kind of thing.
Apple News Today
What we know about the figure skaters lost in the plane crash
This is something that is causing tensions with some of these governments around the region and leading to dust-ups.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
first started out in Panama and then came back by boat. These are all people, by the way, who are taking the sea route, which is several hundred yards away from the coast and heading back into Colombia and then skipping from one town to another until they get to a bigger town where they can catch a bus to go anywhere else in South America.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
There were a lot of people who, you know, were just disappointed they had made this investment. in time and money. These are people who hadn't gotten to Mexico last week. They got to Mexico months ago.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
So we're talking some of them had been in Mexico for six, seven, eight, nine months, and they had been waiting to try to get into the United States and apply for political asylum, which you could do through an app that the Biden administration had created. Donald Trump did away with that app.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
And so people realized that though they had filled out the application to try to get to the United States and get a hearing to apply for political asylum, they knew they couldn't do that anymore. And so they opted to just head south.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
It is new. What we used to see in the past was as many as 1,500 people, sometimes even more, heading north and eventually to the southwest border. And in this case, what we're starting to see, and this is pretty new, is people heading back the other way. We're not talking about huge numbers. We're talking about 150, 200 people leaving by boat from Panama and getting into Colombia.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
That's 150, 200 people a day, sometimes more, sometimes less.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
The country that's feeling it the most is Panama, because Panama is a small country, only has 4.5 million people. And they've already had to deal with many hundreds of thousands of people heading north. And now they're starting to deal with people heading south. And so there's a whole logistical challenge there. The big beneficiaries are smuggling groups who benefited, of course, from migrants.
WSJ What’s News
The Long Journey Home for Migrants Turned Away From the U.S.
the people heading north. These outfits are there ready to move them and offer them services and all this stuff to get them back home. And they try to charge as much as they can. So a lot of these migrants are running out of money on the way or they're getting back home without a cent in their pocket.