Costa Rica: Allow Deported Migrants to Seek Asylum

By Human Rights Watch

(Washington, DC) – Costa Rican Foreign Minister Arnoldo André Tinoco should use his appearance before the Legislative Assembly on March 19, 2025, to disclose his migration agreement with the United States and confirm that third-country nationals deported from the United States can seek asylum in Costa Rica, Human Rights Watch said today.A total of 200 people, including 80 children, arrived in Costa Rica on two deportation flights from the United States in February and are being held in a migration “reception facility” near the border with Panama. The group includes nationals of Afghanistan,…

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