The migrants were flown from San Diego to San Jose, from where they were sent by bus to a migrant shelter near the border with Panama.
While Costa Rica joins Panama in holding deportees from mostly Asian origin until their repatriation can be arranged or they can seek protection somewhere, Honduras on Thursday also facilitated a handoff of deportees between the U.S. and Venezuela from a flight coming from Guantanamo Bay.
A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees of mostly Asian origin, half of them minors, landed Thursday in Costa Rica, making it the second Latin American nation to serve as a stopover for migrants as U.S.
“Costa Rica is a country that guarantees human rights ... The facility will also be processing a “reverse flow” of migrants from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador that previously sought ...
Trump has pressured countries to help facilitate deportations, at times under the threat of steep tariffs or sanctions
After Panama and Guatemala, Costa Rica now also wants to take in 200 illegal, deported migrants from Central Asia and India from the USA.
Honduras on Thursday also facilitated a handoff of deportees between the U.S. and Venezuela from a flight coming from Guantanamo Bay. The migrants arriving to Costa Rica will be bussed hours to a ...
A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries climbed down the stairs of a plane in Costa Rica’s capital Thursday, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration while it organised the return back to their countries.
The migrants will be bused from Costa Rica's capital to a rural holding facility near the Panama border, where they will be detained up to 30 days to be flown back to their countries of origin, said Omer Badilla,
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