{"id":48951,"date":"2026-04-12T22:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48951"},"modified":"2026-04-12T22:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T22:31:06","slug":"first-migrants-deported-from-us-to-third-country-arrive-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=48951","title":{"rendered":"First migrants deported from US to third country arrive in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The first group of migrants deported from the US to third countries has arrived in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>About 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/an-illegal-migrant-may-have-exposed-kristi-noems-husbands-salacious-cross-dressing-secret\/\">migrants<\/a> \u2014 including citizens of Albania, Cameroon, China, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya and Morocco \u2014 touched down in the island nation\u2019s capital of San Jose on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon entering the country, the migrants will receive primary care from the Professional Migration Police, with \u2060the cooperation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),\u201d Costa Rica\u2019s General Directorate of Migration and Foreigners said in a statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The first group of migrants deported to a third country have arrived in Costa Rica. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group of 25 was the first to arrive in the Central American country since the US and Costa Rica signed an agreement in March.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal, Costa Rica will receive up to 25 deportees a week, while the US will provide the country with financial support in return.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The IOM will also offer food and accommodation to the migrants for the first seven days of their stay.<\/p>\n<p>Such third-country deportations allow the US to remove migrants from America whose countries of origin refuse to take them back.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The 25 migrants will have their food and accommodation covered for their first week in Costa Rica. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The deal has been criticized for costing more than $1 million in taxpayer money per deportee, according to a February report produced by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Costa Rica reserves the right to reject deportees on an individual case.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in the country have also said they won\u2019t send deportees back to places where they may face persecution.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The group came from countries such as Albania, Cameroon, China, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya and Morocco. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2025, Costa Rica accepted up to 200 migrants deported by the United States, eventually granting special migratory status to 85 of them who were unable to be repatriated to their home nations.<\/p>\n<p>Other nations have signed similar <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/09\/us-news\/trump-offers-illegal-migrants-exit-bonus-free-flight-out-of-us-via-self-deport-executive-order\/\">agreements with the Trump administration<\/a> to accept third-country deportees, including Dominica, Guyana, Honduras, Rwanda, St. Kitts and Nevis and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCosta Rica is prepared to see this flow of people,\u201d said the country\u2019s public security minister, Marioa Zamora Cordero, in a video statement last month at the time of the signed agreement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The deal with Costa Rica to take in migrants was signed last month. <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>President Trump has touted such moves as a way of removing migrants whose home nations refuse to take them back. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then-Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/31\/us-news\/kristi-noem-weighs-in-on-report-husband-bryon-lives-cross-dressing-double-life\/\">Secretary Kristi Noem<\/a> also spoke approvingly of the deal signed with Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very proud to have partners like President [Chaves] and Costa Rica, who are working to ensure that people who are in our country illegally have the opportunity to return to their countries of origin,\u201d she said in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Noem has been visiting various Latin American countries, including Ecuador and Guyana, as part of her new role as US Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, after she was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/05\/us-news\/trump-fires-kristi-noem-in-first-cabinet-shakeup-of-second-term-taps-senator-for-replacement\/\">fired from the DHS<\/a> by President Trump.<\/p>\n<p><em>With Post wires<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/12\/world-news\/first-migrants-deported-to-third-country-arrive-in-costa-rica\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first group of migrants deported from the US to third countries has arrived in Costa Rica. 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