Costa Rica joins a growing list of Latin American nations to serve as a stopover for migrants as Trump ’s administration pushes for more deportations.

Last year's Real Salt Lake season opener was a trial by fire in Miami against Lionel Messi, but the 2025 kickoff is no cakewalk either.

There are qualifiers for the Concacaf U-17 tournament on Saturday, Feb. 15 when Cuba faces the United States at Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Alajuela, Costa Rica. The match is scheduled to start at 8:30 p.

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

The migrants from around the world did not know where they were or what would happen to them, according to an independent government entity.

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.

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

Colombian migrants deported from the United States wait inside El Dorado airport after arriving in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP File Photo/Fernando Vergara) COSTA RICA (TNND) — Costa Rica announced Monday that it will receive a flight Wednesday from the United States as the Trump administration ramps up deportations of illegal immigrants.

Both countries have received hundreds of deportees from various nations sent by the United States as President Trump’s administration tries to accelerate 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.

Costa Rica's government received its first group of mostly Asian migrants deported from the United States on Thursday, part of a deal with Washington to temporarily house up to 200 deportees from other nations.

A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors, from various countries was set to land Thursday in Costa Rica, making it the second Latin American nation to serve as a stopover as U.S. President Donald Trump 's administration steps up deportations.