US: Asylum Seekers Expelled to Costa Rica Detail Abuses

New Report Condemns Trump Admin’s Deportations of Non-Costa Ricans to Costa Rica

Dozens of non-Costa Rican nationals who were deported to Costa Rica by the Trump administration in February say they did not receive an asylum screening interview before being expelled, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch on Thursday. The report alleges that the U.S. government did not follow the “minimal, if deficient” protections around the right to seek asylum and the… Source

US: Asylum Seekers Expelled to Costa Rica Detail Abuses

Click to expand Image Migrants look out the windows of a plane after arriving in Costa Rica on an expulsion flight from the US at Juan Santamaría Airport, in Alajuela, Costa Rica, February 20, 2025.  © 2025 REUTERS/Mayela Lopez (Washington, DC) – The United States should offer to bring back and hear the asylum claims of approximately 200 third-country nationals, including children, who were wrongfully expelled to Costa Rica in February, Human Ri…

WASHINGTON – The U.S. government should offer to bring back and respond to asylum requests from some 200 third-country nationals, including children and adolescents, who were unfairly expelled to Costa Rica in February, said on Thursday 22 the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW). Michael García Bochenek, legal advisor [...] This article Report Abuses People Deported from the U.S. to Costa Rica was originally published in IPS News Agency

Nearly 200 third-country nationals were “unfairly” expelled from the United States (USA) and transferred to Costa Rica, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported. “They say they applied for asylum but did not allow them to make the application,” Michael Garcia Bochenek, the principal author of a report titled “The strategy is to bend us. Expulsion of third-country nationals from the United States to Costa Rica,” after interviewing 36 people between Marc…