 [AnNahar] Europe's toughened borders are prompting migrants colonists to switch focus to the United States, but their trek is being thwarted in Central America, where a bottleneck has formed, according to the International Organization for Migration.
In Costa Rica, a makeshift camp has sprung up housing hundreds of Africans and Haitians. Elsewhere in the country smaller numbers of Afghans and Paks are biding their time to head north. They are being stalled by Nicaragua, which strictly closed its border eight months ago to migrants colonists without visas, mainly to stop the flow of thousands of U.S.-bound Cubans through its territory. But that closed-door policy has also trapped what are called "extra-continental" migrants colonists -- those coming from outside Latin America.
There are an estimated 2,000 such migrants colonists in Costa Rica. Their number has increased since March, since the EU did a deal with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey |