A group of lawyers for human rights are sued Costa Ricaciting Central American The nation violated the rights of dozens of migrant children detained in a rural camp for almost two months after they were deported from the United States in February.
Children, some young from 2, are part of a group of most hundred migrants Asian Countries – Afghanistan, China, Russia and others – who were deported from the US as part of a wider effort Trump Deportation Ramp Administration.
Many hoped to seek asylum in the United States and expressed fear for returning to their countries. Instead, they were rejected in Costa Rica and Panamawhere they don’t speak local language. Countries were originally intended as a kind of dismissal deportation, but migrants have now spent 50 days in Limba.
The critics described it as a way to export their deportation procedure, while the human rights groups warned that the two countries turned into a “black hole” for deported.
There are about 200 migrants in Costa Rica, 81 children, performed in a rural migrant processing center along the border of Costa Rica-Panama and detained in the former factory building.
The lawsuit from the Global Council of Strategic Steam and Other Human Rights has been submitted before the UN Committee that monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on Thursday evening, and the Costa Rica has violated the Convention.
Silvia Sern Roman, one of the lawyers who undergo suit, said that migrants were held in custody without legal status, without access to educational services or mental health services in their mother tongue. This encouraged the worried long-term influences that the prolonged custody could have on children that many parents reported that their children appear insulated or sad.
“Children are in a very crucial part of their development, and they are all fleeing the complicated context in their countries. And now they have underwent custody for different but long time periods and inhumane treatment, Serna Roman on Friday.” The parents are worried. “
Sern Roman said migrants had little access to the legal advice. The Costa Rule said that migrants could leave custody if they agree to return to their country of origin or seek asylum in Costa Rica.
But the lawyer said many families would be afraid that they would not have anywhere to go and potentially end up on the street, so they stayed in “indefinite custody” in the faculty known as Cater.
“Many fears leave Catem because at least that means a shelter, it means three meals a day, means a roof over his head,” Serna Roman said. “The Costa Rule is not established on how they plan for further protection of these people.”
The associated press repeatedly refused to detention because the migrants arrived, but when the journalists visited camp 2023. years, families slept on a carton or in the tents of the field, where some pronounce fluid from portable toilets.
Costa Rican officials have the disputed reports in the country’s office of the country that they were deported in Costa Rica in visible troubles and that the authorities did not guarantee the appropriate conditions for the arrival of the Deportal.
Costaric President Rodrigo Chaves said in February that in the acceptance of Asian migrants, his country “helps the economically powerful brother in the north.”
The Suitment of GSLC and local human rights groups are only the latest in a series of legal struggles that popped the surrounding deporters sent to central American countries. The same group of lawyers filed a similar case against Panama, who held migrants in hotels and far away camps near Darien’s gap, where they said they were removed by their phones. Sharp criticism encouraged the Panama government to let Migrants on the streets of Panama City last month, leaving many migrants to take care of themselves.
Recently, the deportation of the Venezuelan migrants and American citizen for El Salvador, where they were held in the high safety prison for gangs, with small evidence to support alleged gangs, also encouraged legal battles and fierce political struggles.