Panama's next government is considering erecting new checkpoints along a stretch of thick jungle on its southern border that has become a treacherous part of the journey for growing masses of U.S.-bound migrants, the incoming security chief said on Thursday. The additional checkpoints, where deportation orders could be issued to migrants, appear to be part of President-elect Jose Raul Mulino's campaign pledge to close the so-called Darien Gap, even though he has yet to announce a detailed plan. Frank Abrego, Mulino's incoming security chief, floated a formal border closure along with the checkpoints to process migrants in comments to reporters immediately after a press conference in the capital, where the next president presented part of his cabinet.
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GROUNDBREAKING. Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. (7th from right) leads the groundbreaking and laying of a capsule for the PHP50.3 million bridge project that will provide better access to residents living in the mountainous barangays of the town of Alimodian. The bridge is funded under the Philippine Rural Development Project of the Department of Agriculture and is expected to be completed in 293 calendar days.(Photo courtesy of the Iloilo Provincial Engineers Office) ILOILO CITY - More than 3,500 residents of barangays in the mountainous area of the municipality of Alimodian, dubbed "Seven Cities," stand to benefit from the PHP50.3 million bridge project funded by the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP) of the Department of Agriculture. "This is very important because this bridge will connect the last barangay of the Seven Cities. We have seven mountainous barangays in Alimodian that we call seven cities," Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Jr. said in a p