511 Foreigners Deported
In the first 10 months this year, 511 foreigners, most of them men, were deported after they were found to be in Costa Rica illegally, according to immigration records.

A majority of those were Nicaraguan, but the group included citizens from the U.S., China, Korea, Indonesia, Italy, and several other nations.

Many of the aliens were arrested during police raids in several tourist resorts on the Pacific and the Caribbean, as well as in bars and nightclubs downtown San José.

Immigration Service sources said that while some of them held jobs, a majority engaged in illegal activities, including prostitution.