A group of 200 people, after being deported from the US in February, was flown to Costa Rica as part of US President Donald Trump's initiative to "clean" the country of illegal immigrants, SWI reports.

The deportees include citizens of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, China, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, India, Uzbekistan, Congo, Vietnam, and Nepal.

Those who apply for asylum in Costa Rica have the right to leave immigration detention and work in the country.

A total of 84 of these deportees have already been returned to their countries, while 94 others remain in the shelter.

The Costa Rican government said the US State Department is providing financial support to the International Organization for Migration to provide humanitarian assistance and care to these people. But conditions at the CATEM shelter, located in the southern Costa Rican canton of Corredores, near the border with Panama, have been slammed by human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, and individual lawmakers.