Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services and moving them between remote outposts as they wrestle with the logistics of a suddenly reversed migration flow.

Costa Rica is the second Central American nation to accept migrants from distant countries as the Trump administration ramps up deportation flights.

Costa Rica joins Panama in detaining deportees from the US in stopover back to their countries - A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors from various countries, is set to land in Cos

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Colombia and Ecuador that previously sought asylum in the U.S. and now want to return home. Badilla said Costa Rica has seen between 50 and 75 migrants headed south entering the country a day.

A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors, from various countries was set to land Thursday in Costa Rica, an arrangement that is part of a deal struck earlier this month

Colombia and Ecuador that previously sought asylum in the U.S. and now want to return home. Badilla said Costa Rica has seen between 50 and 75 migrants headed south entering the country a day.

The facility will also be processing a "reverse flow" of migrants from Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador that previously sought asylum in the U.S. and now want to return home. Badilla said Costa Rica has seen between 50 and 75 migrants headed south entering ...