A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors, from various countries was set to land Thursday in Costa Rica, making it the second Latin American nation to serve as a stopover as U.S. President Donald Trump 's administration steps up deportations.

A deportation flight from the U.S. carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants, 65 of whom are minors, is expected to land in Costa Rica on Thursday afternoon.

The US has organized a deportation flight to Costa Rica on Thursday, which will transport 135 illegal migrants. Nearly half of them are minors, NBC News reports. The migrants set for deportation are from China,

Panama this week became the first such country to accept 299 deportees from other nations, with the government holding them in hotel rooms guarded by police. About one-third of th