Panama's president has said his country has received the first U.S. flight carrying deportees from other nations as the Trump administration takes Panama up on its offer to act as a stopover for expelled migrants.

Panama City, Panama - Panama received a total of 119 migrants from “the most diverse nationalities in the world” deported from the United States on the eve of the migrant crisis, to later return them on flights paid for by the US to their countries of origin,

The Trump administration has launched a controversial new deportation strategy, sending unauthorized migrants from Africa and Asia to Panama instead of their home countries. This move, described as a diplomatic