Panama has transferred about one-third of the deportees from various nations it had received from the United States to a camp in its Darien province Wednesday, an area that became the main thoroughfare for migrants traveling from South America to the U.

The administration has asked Panama to take in hundreds of people who can’t easily be sent back to their countries. Many say they are in danger.

An Irish citizen, who was among nearly 300 migrants deported from the US to Panama this month, has voluntarily returned home to Ireland, a Panamanian official said this week.