San Jose:
In the footsteps of Panama and Guatemala, Costa Rica also announced on Monday that it was willing to receive illegal migrants from the United States, who are subjects of other countries. The Presidential Office of the Central -American country said in a statement that 200 migrants from Central -Asia and India would arrive in a commercial flight from the US on Wednesday.
“The government of Costa Rica agreed to collaborate with the United States in the repatriation of 200 illegal immigrants to their country,” said the office of the Costa Rican president in a statement, adding that “this people are from … Central -Asia and India. “
Costa Rica's plan
The first set of American deportees will reach Costa Rica on Wednesday on board a commercial flight, after which they will be transported to a temporary migrant care center at the border with Panama.
The migrants will then be moved to the countries of their origins.
Costa Rica indicated that “the process will be fully financed” by the US government under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
In the footsteps of Panama and Guatemala
Costa Rica is the third country in Central America to work together on repatriation of deported migrants from the United States since President Donald Trump took office in Washington on January 20. Panama and Guatemala had previously agreed to a similar arrangement when the American State Secretary Marco Rubio visited a recent tour through Latin America.
Panama received his first repatriation flight with 119 migrants on board last week from China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere, according to Panamanian officials. Nobody has arrived in Guatemala.
Latin -America is the original house of most of the estimated 11 million migrants without papers, according to a report from AFP. Many had made dangerous journeys, defying treacherous terrain, wild animals and criminal gangs for a chance of a better life.
However, Trump took a hard border against migrants without papers during last year's American election campaign and described some as “samples” and “animals”. On his first day at the office last month, Trump declared a national emergency situation on the southern American border and promised to deport “millions and millions” migrants.
