Costa Rica to accept 25 deportees every week under deal with Trump admin

Costa Rica said it would accept 25 migrants deported from the United States per week as part of an agreement to help the Trump administration's latest policy of deporting immigrants to "third countries". The Central American nation joins a growing number of countries across Africa and the Americas that have signed contentious, often secretive agreements with the US to accept deportees from other countries as US President Donald Trump pressures governments to help him advance his agenda. In many cases, migrants who previously hoped to seek asylum in the US are left in a legal "black hole" in foreign countries where they don't speak the language. Countries who have agreed to receive third-party migrants include South Sudan, Honduras, Rwanda, Guyana, and several Caribbean islands like Dominica and St. Kitts and Nevis. "Costa Rica is prepared to see this flow of people," said Public Security Minister of the country, Mario Zamora Cordero, in a video statement on Thursday. Costa Rica's .

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