Rachel Schmidtke

Some people being deported to Costa Rica may be asylum seekers who were never given a fair chance to present their cases in the United States.

The agreement between Costa Rica and the United States would permit the deportation of ~25 third country nationals from the U.S. per week.

The United States is deporting thousands of third country nationals to Mexico using coercive tactics, including enforced disappearances.

We spoke with migrants and asylum seekers stranded in Villahermosa, Mexico.

Estados Unidos está abandonando una respuesta a la crisis en nuestro propio hemisferio y deshaciendo casi una década de progreso.

The U.S. is abandoning a crisis response in our own hemisphere and undoing nearly a decade of progress.

This agreement outsources the Trump administration’s cruel immigration enforcement to other countries and is a misuse of U.S. funding.

The decision should serve as a warning to the Costa Rican government not to collaborate with the United States on deportation deals that will violate the human rights of migrants.

El gobierno de Costa Rica participó voluntariamente en una serie de violaciones de derechos humanos contra personas migrantes expulsadas por Washington.

In just four months, the Trump administration has dismantled this protection infrastructure and pressured Costa Rica into violating the rights of refugees – while simultaneously increasing the migration pressures.