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Hundreds of Costa Rican police descended on a Nicaraguan community in the Costa Rican capital and arrested at least 192 people. At about 5:30 in the morning on Jan. 30, some 300 police burst into Ciudadela La Carpio in La Uruca, San Jose, a community of 35,000, rousting the Nica immigrant population and demanding to see residency documents. People unable to produce the papers, along with many who had documents, were loaded onto buses and taken to a processing area near the Parque Nacional de Diversiones. Once there, many were let go after inspection, but more than 600 had to wait hours while officials of Migracion y Extranjeria verified their status.
The net haul for the operation was 19 people held on outstanding warrants, and 173 held because of migratory irregularities. Of those last, deportation proceedings were initiated for 22, another 51 were given five days to get their papers in order, and the rest were subjected to further verification.
This was to be just the beginning, Minister of Public Security Rogelio Ramos told the media; other such operations would soon be taking place...
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