A luxury hotel is housing almost 300 people deported from the US, after Panama agreed to become a "bridge" country.

Nearly 100 migrants who had been locked in a Panama hotel were bused to the camp late Tuesday night. “There are fenced cages,” said one of the detainees.

Panamanian authorities say they recaptured a woman who had escaped confinement from a Panama hotel where she and nearly 300 deportees from the United States were being held as they awaited repatriatio