Julie Turkowitz

Working with my colleagues, I'm working with several other colleagues who have a broad variety of language skills and have been able to speak. All of us have been able to speak to a group of these people who have said that they are being held against their will.

They came to the United States to seek asylum, were swiftly deported by the United States and wound up in Panama, never expecting, of course, to be there.

Another hundred or so of them have said, no, we don't feel that it's safe to go back to our countries. And those are the folks who have now been transferred to this camp near the Darien jungle.

The Panamanian government says, OK, we'll take your most difficult cases. Now those most difficult cases are the challenge of the Panamanian government.