Trump Migrant Crackdown: After Panama, Costa Rica Offers 'Bridge' For Indians Deported By US

(MENAFN- Live Mint) trump migrant crackdown: Central American nation Costa Rica has announced plans to welcome Indian and Central Asian migrants who the Donald Trump government is deporting. The deportees will be kept in a detention centre in Costa Rica till they leave for their country of origin, the Latin American country's administration announced.

Till now, India has received three military planes of illegal Indian migrants as they were deported from the US.

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Costa Rica announced on Monday that it would receive a flight this week from the United States carrying 200 migrants from Central Asia and India, making it the second nation in Central America to accept deportees from faraway countries who had crossed illegally into the United States.

Last week, Panama received three US deportation flights carrying migrants from countries in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

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While travelling through Central America and the Caribbean earlier in February, Secretary of State Marco Rubio received assurances from several governments, including Panama's and Costa Rica's, that they were committed to working with the Donald Trump administration on migration issues, according to a New York Times report.

Costa Rica to 'Serve as a Bridge' for Deportees

According to the New York Times report, Costa Rica said its territory would“serve as a bridge” for the migrants' return to their countries of origin and that the repatriation process would be“fully funded by the US government.”

The process would be facilitated under the supervision of the 'International Organization for Migration', a United Nations agency.

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