“Panama cannot end up becoming a black hole for deported migrants,” said Juan Pappier, deputy director of Human Rights Watch ...
Trump’s tariff threats and political pressures are believed to be reasons third countries agreed to receive deportees.
A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors, from various countries was set to land Thursday in Costa Rica, ...
Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants' passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics ...
Panama and Costa Rica are among a number of Latin American nations that have agreed to cooperate with U.S. President Donald Trump as he ramps up his deportation machine and restricts access to asylum ...
Costa Rica and Panama have agreed to serve as “bridge” countries holding the migrants. At least three flights have arrived in Panama so far, and one flight landed in Costa Rica on Thursday.
Upon arrival, the migrants will be bused from Costa Rica’s capital to a rural holding facility near the Panama border, where they will wait up to 30 days to be flown back to their countries of ...
The migrants were flown from San Diego to San Jose, from where they were sent by bus to a migrant shelter near the border ...
Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics ...
While Costa Rica joins Panama in holding deportees from mostly Asian origin until their repatriation can be arranged or they can seek protection somewhere, Honduras on Thursday also facilitated a ...