U.S. and Panama Create Joint Task Force to Confront Illegal Migration
By Kausha Luna on June 8, 2018
According to a joint press release, the United States and Panama have finalized the creation of a Joint Migration Task Force, "a new mechanism to ensure more effective and complete coordination to address illegal immigration in the region."
At the invitation of the Panama's President Juan Carlos Varela and other top officials, a delegation from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) participated in the third meeting of the U.S.-Panama High-Level Dialogue on Security. The meeting was held between security authorities of both governments in order to coordinate and prioritize joint actions in relation to illegal migratory flows that affect the region and to combat drug trafficking and other criminal modalities of transnational crime.
The press release does not specify which agencies will be part of the joint task force or when will it be active.
https://cis.org/Luna/US-and-Panama-Create-Joint-Task-Force-Confront-Illegal-Migration
