The Quixote Center and the Franciscan Network on Migration's Panama team lead migrant solidarity trips throughout Panama, from the Darien jungle in the south, all the way to the northern border with Costa Rica. Participants experience community-based responses and welcoming, speak to migrants undertaking the journey, and examine how the United States is influencing the Panamanian government's response to the influx.
The group visits the Panamanian government's "reception centers" in the Darien, where migrants who survive the perilous journey must choose between paying $100 per person for a bus northward or trek miles through mountainous highways. The group also visits the country's only non-profit- run migrant shelter, serving medically vulnerable people.
