President Joe Biden hosted Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves at the White House on Tuesday as they discussed how to grapple with a record number of migrants in the region headed toward the U.S.
The meeting came amid the unprecedented movement of migrants through the Central American nation on their way to the U.S. southern border. A significant number of migrants fleeing the violence and chaos in Nicaragua and Venezuela have arrived in Costa Rica, putting pressure on the nation’s already taxed asylum system.
Mr. Chaves expressed that Costa Rica will remain one of the U.S.’s “strongest alliances in the world” regarding economic and security interests. In June, the two countries reached an agreement to allow legal pathways to the U.S. for Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants, who accounted for 240,000 of the asylum seekers in Costa Rica. Last year, Nicaraguans accounted for nine out of the 10 applicants.
After a sharp drop in June, the number of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border surged in July. There were roughly 99,5000 crossings in June, a 42% drop in May after the administration launched a new asylum rule. However, crossings increased in July to more than 132,000.
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