"It's not the migrants themselves that are creating a national threat; it is the organized crime, and it is these international organizations." At the Lajas Blancas camp in Panama, migrants have access to a number of large maps provided by NGOs that display detailed migration routes heading to the United States.
Migrants from Venezuela line up to get registered into Bajo Chiquito camp in the Darien Gap, Panama.
The Epoch Times visited all four migrant camps in the Darien Gap this week, speaking with migrants from China, Somalia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, and others who hiked out of the treacherous jungle leading from Colombia into Panama.
"The funds are supposed to be there to help the migrants." ADVERTISEMENT AD The only NGO workers spotted during the weekend of Feb. 17-18 were with the Red Cross, which was building a temporary structure for their workers, and Doctors Without Borders, whose medics were speaking with migrants.
The NGOs should be educating and helping migrants in their own countries, not Panama, Mr. Ortega said.
A migrant sits under a detailed migration map provided by an NGO, at a migrant camp in the Darien Gap, Panama.
Panama has tried, to no avail, to get governments in South America to provide personal information on migrants who are moving across different countries, he said.
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