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Venezuelan migrants handed over to Mexico like it’s a U.S. immigration detention facility. Families from Central Asia flown to Panama and Costa Rica to await voluntary repatriation to their countries.

Costa Rica received Thursday the first U.S. flight of deportees from other nations it agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration.

The flight of 135 deportees, half of them minors, added Costa Rica to a growing list of Latin American nations to serve as a stopover for migrants as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to step up deportations.

A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries climbed down the stairs of a plane in Costa Rica’s capital Thursday, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration while it organised the return back to their countries.

A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors from various countries, is set to land in Costa Rica, making the country the latest Latin American nation to serve as a stopover as U.S. Presi

Panama received three U.S. deportation flights last week with migrants from China, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries.

The flight of 135 deportees, half of them minors, added Costa Rica to a growing list of Latin American nations to serve as a stopover for migrants as U.S. President Donald Trump‘s administration seeks to step up deportations.

The U.S. has deported more than 400 migrants — from nations as far as China and Vietnam — to Panama and Costa Rica, leaving them in legal limbo.

Dozens of migrants, mostly Venezuelans, who find themselves in limbo due to evolving immigration policies, are stuck in the Costa Rica-Panama border on Wednesday (February 12), with many demanding permission for free transit through Panama in hopes of returning to their homeland.