Stranded in Panama

Elham Ghaedizadeh, an Iranian who converted to Christianity, in a church in Panama City. Migrants – from Iran, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan and elsewhere – are free but stranded in a country that doesn’t want them, many sleeping in a school gymnasium made available by an aid group, with little clarity about what to do next. — Nathalia Angarita/The New York Times

By Genevieve Glatsky, Farnaz Fassihi and Julie Turkewitz

WHEN the first buses of newly freed migrants arrived in Panama City last month from a detention camp at the edge of a jungle, three people were visibly ill.