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2008, San José, Costa
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Uncovers Costa Rica
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Migrants
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Immigration Police
Uncovers Costa Rica
Bridge To US For African
Migrants
African migrants looking
for a route to America
has ended up in Costa
Rica an in an attempt to
make an illegal entry to
the United States. A
Costa Rican immigration
police investigation
uncovered the plan.
Costa Rican authorities
say the group of
Africans were brought to
Costa Rica from Europe
by a trafficking network
using Latin America as a
bridge to the U.S.
On Friday Costa Rica's
immigration service
deported a group of 25
Eritreans, four of which
had been arrested two
weeks ago at the Costa
Rica - Nicaragua border,
posing as tourists.
Investigations carried
out by Costa Rican
authorities identified a
route by which Africans
leave from Malta, travel
to Venezuela and make
their way overland
through Panama, Costa
Rica, the rest of
Central America and
Mexico – from where they
attempt to move enter
the United States.
Another route identified
by the Costa Rican
police sees African
migrants illegally
obtaining travel papers
in Italy, travelling on
to Spain and then to
Costa Rica, Mexico and
finally their intended
destination – the United
States.
The Ministerio de
Seguriad Publica said in
a statement, “Apparently
there is a network
dedicated to relocating
Africans from one
country to another with
the goal of enabling
them to reach their
final destination, which
is the United States.”
The fact that at least
hundreds of irregular
migrants released from
detention in Malta, and
given travel papers by
the government,
clandestinely make their
way out of Malta and
onward to mainland
Europe is an open
secret. But the fact
that some then make
their way to South and
Central America and then
to the US, through the
network identified by
the Costa Ricans, is
new.
Apparently, not even the
daunting prospect of
crossing the Atlantic to
South America, travel
through Central America
and Mexico and run
across the
Mexican-American border
is enough to dissuade
migrants bent on
reaching the US. |
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