Javier Antonio Cruz, 27, and Junior Eduardo Garcia Castro, 28, have been detained after appearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer. If convicted, they face up to two years in prison.

More than 100 asylum seekers from around the world sent to Panama from the United States have no sense how long they will be held or where they might eventually be sent.

A citizen of El Salvador, previously convicted for double homicide in his home country, was arrested Friday in Elizabeth, federal prosecutors said. César Eliseo Sorto-Amaya, 28, was charged Friday with illegally reentering the United States,

A boat carrying 19 migrants — part of a “reverse flow” of migrants who once hoped to reach the United States — capsized off the Caribbean coast of Panama on Saturday, claiming the life of an 8-year-old Venezuelan boy,

Months after trekking through the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama, Saudy Palacios abandoned her hopes of a new life in the United States and joined other migrants going home to South America by sea.

Officials arrested two illegal immigrants from Guatemala after they smuggled roughly 20,000 illegal immigrants into the United States.

Fourteen alleged members of a smuggling organization were charged for their roles in smuggling hundreds of people from South and Central America into the United States Feb. 19.

Panama's government denied Tuesday that migrants deported by the United States who were seen holding up signs to hotel windows pleading for help were being held against their will.

A growing number of Latin American migrants who have given up hope of reaching the United States are returning to their home countries in South America through a sea route in Panama, which poses new risks,

Three women from the United States have been found dead at a popular vacation destination.Their bodies were discovered in their room at a luxurious resort in Belize, on the north-eastern coast of Central America,

A group of lawyers accused Panama of violating the rights of people deported from the United States under the Trump administration’s policy of sending migrants to cooperative Latin American nations.

A boat carrying 19 migrants — part of a “reverse flow” of migrants who once hoped to reach the United States — capsized off the Caribbean coast of Panama on Saturday, claiming the life of an