(CLO) Costa Rica is the second Central American country to accept immigrants deported from the US, as the Trump administration increases flights to deport them from the country.
Costa Rica said on February 17 that it would accept illegal immigrants who were deported from the United States. According to the New York Times Times, a flight from the United States to Costa Rica on Wednesday (February 18) will carry about 200 migrants originating from Central Asian countries and India.
Costa Rica will receive about 200 migrants deported by the US this week. Photo: Border Report
Upon arrival at Juan Santamaría International Airport, the deportees will be transferred to the Temporary Monitoring Center for Migrants (CATEM) in the Corredores area, near the country's southern border, Costa Rica's Tico Times reported.
Costa Rica will not pay for the flights to repatriate the migrants. "This process is fully funded by the United States Government, under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which will process the migrants during their stay," the Costa Rican government said in a statement.
With this decision, Costa Rica becomes the second country in Central America to accept deportees who entered the United States illegally. Last week, Panama received three US deportation flights carrying migrants from countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Such flights are a new tactic by the Trump administration to deal with illegal migrants from countries where they may not be easy to return. Instead of holding such migrants in detention centers on the southern border, the White House is lobbying other countries to take them.
Costa Rica is located on the only route for migrants from South America to North America. Photo: Wikipedia
Costa Rican officials have not said how many migrants the U.S. expects to send back or how long they will stay in the Central American country before being sent back to their countries of origin. Costa Rica has recently been grappling with how to deal with thousands of migrants passing through on their way to the U.S. border.
The country’s shelters have been packed with migrants who, in many cases, have traveled through the dangerous Darién Gap rainforest region between Colombia and Panama to reach the next Central American country, a notorious area for muggings and sexual assaults.
Nguyen Khanh (according to New York Times, Tico Times)
Source: https://www.congluan.vn/them-costa-rica-se-tiep-nhan-nguoi-nhap-cu-trung-a-va-an-do-bi-my-truc-xuat-post335085.html
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