On his first trip as secretary of state, Marco Rubio will also visit four other Latin American countries and press immigration issues.

President Trump’s secretary of state arrives in Panama City on Saturday with a brazen mandate from his boss and a wary host.

Among the countries for which waivers for certain programs have been submitted are Panama, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and its neighbor, Haiti. Although Rubio will not be traveling to Haiti, the State Department has already allowed some $41 million in support of an international peacekeeping force there to go ahead.