First deportees arrive in Costa Rica under third-country agreement with U.S.
Migrants deported from the United States get off an airliner at the runway of the Juan Santamaria International Airport in Alajuela, Costa Rica, on April 11, 2026. (Photo by Ezequiel BECERRA / AFP via Getty Images) Costa Rica received the first group of migrants deported from the U.S. under the newly signed-third country agreement. On Saturday, a plane carrying around 25 migrants touched down in the Latin American country, their home countries including Albania, Cameroon, China, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Kenya and Morocco, media outlets reported. The arrival is part of a deal between the U.S. and Costa Rica where the latter has agreed to accept up to 25 third-country deported migrants a week, meaning people whose nationality is neither American nor Costa Rican. “Upon entering the country, the migrants will receive primary care from the Professional Migration Police, with the cooperation of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),” said Costa Rica’s General Directorat...