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Costa Rica’s Treatment of Migrants
Costa Rica’s current procedures for
deporting and expelling immigrants violate
basic freedoms and rights, the Paris-based
International Federation of Human Rights, or
FIDH, said Friday.
Among the “most serious contradictions” with
regard to international and regional law, it
cited the country’s “processes of
deportation and expulsion and preventive
detention,” adding that those procedures “do
not respect the right to an effective
remedy, with access to an independent and
impartial court, and to due process.”
“The political and legal mechanisms chosen
by the Costa Rican government to tackle the
challenges posed by international
immigration tend to focus more and more on
‘security,’ often to the detriment of basic
freedoms and rights,” the federation said.
In the report, published before Costa Rica’s
legislative assembly votes on a bill to
reform current immigration law, the FIDH
said it is “unacceptable that the
deportation procedure can be begun on the
basis of an accusation.”
With regard to the matter of preventive
detention, the report said the country’s
migrant detention centers “function as
veritable ‘rights-free’ zones because the
places and the way they operate have never
been regulated by law and, what’s worse,
there is no legally defined period of
detention.”
It added that that could lead to the
“possibility of immigrants being detained
for an undetermined period of time.”
Regarding the current bill before lawmakers,
the FIDH said in its report that it
“corrects in large part these violations of
international and regional human rights law”
and therefore recommended that it be passed.
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