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Costa Rica to accept 25 'third country' deportees from US every week (AP)
Costa Rica to accept 25 ‘third country’ deportees from US every weekAP (on their own site)
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica said Thursday that it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration’s latest policy of deporting immigrants to “third countries.”
The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the Americas that have signed contentious, often secretive agreements with the U.S. to accept deportees from other countries as U.S. President Donald Trump pressures governments to help him advance his agenda. In many cases, migrants who previously hoped to seek asylum in the U.S. are left in a legal “black hole” in foreign countries where they don’t speak the language.
Countries who have agreed to receive third-party migrants include South Sudan, Honduras, Rwanda, Guyana, and several Caribbean islands like Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis.
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Such transfers have been sharply criticized for putting vulnerable populations further at risk and in some cases sending them to dangerous nations or where they face risk. Costa Rica has already faced controversy for its treatment of 200 deportees from countries like Russia, China, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan it received last year.
Deportees, half of whom were minors, had their passports seized and were locked up for months in a rural detention facility near the Panama border, an incident that fueled lawsuits and accusations of human rights abuses. The country’s supreme court ordered their release last June.
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The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the Americas that have signed contentious, often secretive agreements with the U.S. to accept deportees from other countries as U.S. President Donald Trump pressures governments to help him advance his agenda. In many cases, migrants who previously hoped to seek asylum in the U.S. are left in a legal “black hole” in foreign countries where they don’t speak the language.
Countries who have agreed to receive third-party migrants include South Sudan, Honduras, Rwanda, Guyana, and several Caribbean islands like Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis.
...
Such transfers have been sharply criticized for putting vulnerable populations further at risk and in some cases sending them to dangerous nations or where they face risk. Costa Rica has already faced controversy for its treatment of 200 deportees from countries like Russia, China, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan it received last year.
Deportees, half of whom were minors, had their passports seized and were locked up for months in a rural detention facility near the Panama border, an incident that fueled lawsuits and accusations of human rights abuses. The country’s supreme court ordered their release last June.
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Emphasis added.
What are the Costa Rican authorities getting out of this? Is it just a matter of wanting to be on Trump's good side?
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