SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rican and Panamanian officials on Tuesday arrested nearly 50 people linked to an international network suspected of smuggling migrants from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean through Central America and toward the United States, prosecutors said.
In one
of the largest operations against people smugglers conducted in the country,
Costa Rican migration police and prosecutors raided 36 locations near the
country’s borders with Panama and Nicaragua, arresting 37 suspected members of
the network.
In
Panama, federal police arrested 12 people connected to the same network, local
authorities said.
The number
of migrants crossing the region to reach the United States has grown in recent
years, stoking tensions between the Trump administration and Mexico and Central
America.
Stephen
Madden, deputy director of Costa Rica’s migration police, said the criminal
network charged between $7,000 and $20,000 to transport each migrant.
The ring
moved individuals from various Asian and African countries, as well as from
Cuba and Haiti, he added.
Panama
said its crackdown involved 24 operatives from the prosecutor’s office and over
50 federal police officers. On Twitter, the Panamanian attorney general’s
office said migrants were paying smugglers $1,500 or more to pass through
Panama.
Costa
Rican officials have documented 249 migrants who had been transported by the smuggling
ring, but “there have been many more,” Mr. Madden said.
Leaders
of the network included a Costa Rican man working in the health ministry and
two Nicaraguan women, Mr. Madden said in a joint news conference with Costa
Rican prosecutors.
One of
the women, nicknamed “Mama Africa,” coordinated an underground housing network
for migrants in La Cruz, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica that borders
Nicaragua, he said.
According
to a Costa Rican police report, the investigation opened in 2018. It discovered
two routes used by the network: one by land, and another by sea to Honduras,
via the northern port of Puerto Soley.
The
report said migrants were then picked up by other organizations in Guatemala to
cross into Mexico and travel as far as the southern border of the United
States.
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