Blinken calls for global cooperation on migration in Panama trip

PANAMA CITY, 20 April 2022, (TON): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought greater cooperation in Latin America on migration, taking up a cause of rising political headaches amid the global focus on Ukraine.

The top US diplomat was paying a two-day trip to Panama, his first to Latin America this year, weeks before President Joe Biden’s administration ends pandemic restrictions that allowed swift expulsions to Mexico.

Blinken and US Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will discuss migration measures Wednesday in Panama City with counterparts from more than 20 countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Nearly 100 million people have fled their homes worldwide amid startlingly fast displacement in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February.

Blinken said “there are now more people on the move around the world, displaced from their homes, than at any time since World War II. And we’re feeling that here in our hemisphere.”

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