I've read about El Salvador (and Guantanamo) housing deported illegals if there's issues with their home countries taking them back, but NYT articles adds a couple more countries willing to do the internment.
Panama
Costa Rica
Trumps leverage on Panama is known, but seems weird that Costa Rica is accepting the illegals, I wonder what was the threat or quid pro quo. My speculation is El Salvador (e.g. with the real prisons) are for the illegal felons, and Panama and Costa Rica are for the non-felons. Article has different lists of nationals in the article but looks like Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, China and India so far.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...e=articleShare
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When President Trump took office in January, his plan for sweeping deportations faced a major challenge: what to do with migrants from countries like Afghanistan, Iran and China where the United States cannot easily send deportees, because the other nations will not accept migrants or for other reasons.
Last week, the new administration found a solution: Export them to a country willing to take them in.
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On Wednesday, U.S. officials began flying hundreds of people, including people from Asian, Middle Eastern and African countries, to Panama, which is under intense pressure to appease Mr. Trump, who has threatened to take over the Panama Canal.
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Now it will be Panamanian officials who decide what happens to them.
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Costa Rica announced on Monday that it would also receive a flight from the United States, carrying 200 deportees from Central Asia and India.
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... have been locked in a soaring, glass-paneled hotel, the Decapolis Hotel Panama in Panama City, for nearly a week, while officials ready a camp near the jungle.
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