“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.”

A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries climbed down the stairs of an airplane in Costa Rica's capital Thursday, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration while it

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

The migrants were flown from San Diego to San Jose, from where they were sent by bus to a migrant shelter near the border with Panama.