20,000 Rejected
Immigration Service agents rejected 20,847 foreigners at ports of entry during the first six months this year.

Of the total, 97 percent were Nicaraguan.

Also, the law-enforcement agency deported 297.

Those rejected where people who were not allowed to enter Costa Rica because they did not have proper traveling documents, tried to enter illegally, or had impediments preventing them from entering Costa Rica.

Most of the rejections took place at the border crossings from Nicaragua at Peñas Blancas and Los Chiles.