US: Asylum Seekers Expelled to Costa Rica Detail Abuses

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Migrants look out the windows of a plane after arriving in Costa Rica on an expulsion flight from the US at Juan Santamaría Airport, in Alajuela, Costa Rica, February 20, 2025. © 2025 REUTERS/Mayela Lopez (Washington, DC) – The United States should offer to bring back and hear the asylum claims of approximately 200 third-country nationals, including children, who were wrongfully expelled to Costa Rica in February, Human Rights Watch said today. Costa Rica should also refuse future transfers of third-country nationals expelled from the US. …

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