This story follows the lives of some of the 299 non-Panamanian migrants deported from the U.S. to Panama under a controversial third-country agreement during Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. Many had hoped to seek asylum in the U.S., but instead found themselves in a country they never chose — caught in a state of limbo, unable to return home and unsure of their future. My work accompanies this investigation into what it means to be displaced, unwanted, and forgotten at the edge of the American dream.