Migrants stuck in Panama

The World

A large group of migrants, about 2,500 people in all, mostly from Haiti, is stuck in the rainforest in Panama. Officials there want to send them across the border into Costa Rica. But Costa Rica says not so fast. The World’s Jorge Valencia talked with one local man who’s stepping in to help the migrants himself.  

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