Panama and Costa Rica turning into a 'black hole' for migrants and deportees from US, observers warn

Why have Costa Rica and Panama agreed to take immigrants deported by Trump?

Trump’s tariff threats and political pressures are believed to be reasons third countries agreed to receive deportees.

Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and one of the main promoters of the privatization of security, now wants to bring his business model to immigration control. According to the US political portal, Prince has presented a plan for mass deportations in which he contemplates methods and private security structures to expel migrants from the United States. This initiative, aligned with anti-immigrant policies, shows the danger of outsourcing state …

The authorities of Costa Rica and Panama confiscate the migrants' passports and mobile phones, deny them access to legal aid and transfer them between remote posts while dealing with the logistics of a migratory flow that suddenly circulates the other way around.

Panama and Costa Rica turning into a 'black hole' for migrants and deportees from U.S., observers warn

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow.

The issues that have been put on the table of the current international dynamics such as the deportees of the United States, the Panama Canal or Greenland, are only smokescreens to “enter” the planet and put it to think and debate about issues that are not priority. According to US Senator Bernie Sanders, Trump’s real goal is to “illegally and unconstitutionally dismantle government agencies” so that the billionaires and the “rulers class” (who)…

Migrants expelled from U.S. to Costa Rica, Panama in a legal ‘black hole’

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow. In its first month, the Trump administration ordered the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants, though so far only a sm…