"We're helping our powerful economic brother in the north, because if (the U.S.) imposes a tax on our export zones, we're screwed," - Costa Rican President

US pressures Costa Rica into migration deal - CR to take hundreds of foreign nationals deported from US

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/costa-rica-could-hold-us-deportees-up-six-weeks-president-says-2025-02-19/