“Panama cannot end up becoming a black hole for deported migrants,” said Juan Pappier, deputy director of Human Rights Watch in the Americas. “Migrants have the right to communicate with their families, to seek lawyers and Panama must guarantee transparency about the situation in which they find themselves.”

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

The authorities of Panama and Costa Rica agreed on Tuesday to transfer migrants returning from the north of the continent to the south to shelters on

A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees of mostly Asian origin, half of them minors, landed Thursday in Costa Rica, making it the second Latin American nation to serve as a stopover for migrants as U.S.

The migrants will be bused from Costa Rica's capital to a rural holding facility near the Panama border, where they will be detained up to 30 days to be flown back to their countries of origin, said Omer Badilla,

After Panama and Guatemala, Costa Rica now also wants to take in 200 illegal, deported migrants from Central Asia and India from the USA.

Panama and Costa Rica are among a number of Latin American nations that have agreed to cooperate with U.S. President Donald Trump as he ramps up his deportation machine and restricts access to asylum in the U.