
Officials from Panama and Costa Rica met this week to work out details for how to handle the flow, which is already a steady stream and could become a flood as people who'd been waiting in Mexico for a shot at the U.S. give up.
In Nicaragua, authorities this month have had to figure out what to do with migrants crossing south from Honduras. After initially resisting them, Nicaraguan immigration officials ended up allowing them to cross, as long as they promised to keep heading further south.
It's a startling reversal, though one the U.S. is trying to help with by orchestrating flights to get the migrants out of Central America and back to their home countries.
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