QCOSTARICA — The Costa Rican government announced Monday night that it will collaborate with the United States in the repatriation of immigrants of other nationalities, who will be transferred to Costa Rica and then continue to their countries of origin.
“The Costa Rican government agreed to collaborate with the United States in the repatriation of 200 illegal immigrants to its country. These are ordinary people from countries in Central Asia and India,” the Presidency said in a statement.
It specified that the first group will arrive in Costa Rica on a commercial flight on Wednesday afternoon, the 19th, and will be transferred from the San Jose (Juan Santamaría International) airport to the Temporary Migrant Care Center (Catem) located in the canton of Corredores, in the south of the province of Puntarenas.
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The brief statement indicated that the process is completely financed by the United States government, under the supervision of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which will be the one to take care of the migrants during their stay in Costa Rica.
The Presidency does not specify the length of stay of the returnees in the country or other details.
Two other Central American countries, Panama and Guatemala, also offered to provide facilities to the United States to serve as a bridge for flights with migrants expelled from the United States, within the plans of President Donald Trump to deport millions of migrants.
Costa Rica was one of the countries visited by the new Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, in his first tour of the region, which preceded an increase in deportation flights to Latin American countries.
During his stopover in Costa Rica, Rubio offered Washington’s help to combat drug trafficking.
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