Migrants deported to Costa Rica must be released, justice orders

A COURT this week ordered Costa Rican authorities to release foreign migrants locked up in a shelter after being deported by the US, according to a resolution issued on the eve of a visit by the US secretary of homeland security.

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Some 200 migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia as well as from Africa and some other Asian countries, including 80 children, were brought to the Central American nation in February under an agreement with the US administration of President Donald Trump, a move criticised by human rights organisations.

By partially accepting an appeal filed in March on behalf of the migrants, the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice gave immigration 15 days to process the “determination of the immigration status of the deportees” and their release, according to the resolution.