Pressure mounts on Costa Rica-Nicaragua border
Monday, July 18, 2016
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Several thousand immigrants from Africa, Asia and Haiti have arrived in Costa Rica in recent months on their way to the United States.
Many have gotten stuck there — with no money and no desire to return home, and no way to get across the border into Nicaragua without the dubious help of smugglers.
Source: Tico Times