PANAMA-MEXICO-CUBA-SURINAM-MIGRATION-REFUGE

Cuban Sergio Garcia (2-L), his wife Ilyu Gonzalez (L) and their children eat at the waitng room of the Tocumen International airport, in Panama City on July 1, 2021. - Sergio, Ilyu and their children live in Surinam, and claim that they traveled to Mexico on vacation, but were denied entry due to problems with their documentation. With no possibility of returning to Surinam due to a border closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they were sent to Panama, from where they were going to be sent to Cuba, but they refused. The family has stayed for 20 days in the transit zone of the airport of Panama, where they have requested refuge, which the government denied. (Photo by Ivan PISARENKO / AFP) (Photo by IVAN PISARENKO/AFP via Getty Images)