Illegal migrants from US: Following the footsteps of Panama and Guatemala, Costa Rica also announced on Monday that it is ready to bring back illegal immigrants deported from the United States, who are citizens of other countries. The Central American nation’s president’s office said in a statement that 200 migrants from Central Asia and India will arrive on a commercial flight from the US on Wednesday.
“The government of Costa Rica has agreed to cooperate with the United States in deporting 200 illegal immigrants back to their country,” the Costa Rican president’s office said in a statement. “These are people coming from Central Asia and India,” it added.
The first group of US deportees will arrive in Costa Rica on a commercial plane on Wednesday, where they will be taken to a temporary migrant care center near the Panamanian border. The migrants will then be flown to their countries of origin.
Costa Rica clarified that “the costs of the process will be borne entirely by the US Government under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration (IOM)”.
Costa Rica is the third country in Central America to cooperate with the United States in repatriating deported migrants since President Donald Trump took office in Washington on Jan. 20.Panama and Guatemala previously agreed to a similar arrangement when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Latin America recently.
Panama received its first repatriation flight last week with 119 migrants from China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to Panamanian officials. No one has yet arrived in Guatemala. According to an AFP report, the majority of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are originally from Latin America. Many have made dangerous journeys to find a better life, enduring harsh terrain, wild animals and criminal gangs.
However, Trump took a hardline stance against undocumented migrants during last year’s U.S. election campaign, describing some as “monsters” and “animals.” On his first day in office last month, Trump declared a national emergency at the southern U.S. border and vowed to deport “millions and millions” of migrants.
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