WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Biden is internet hosting Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves on the White House Tuesday, following an settlement between the 2 nations on potential authorized pathways for migrants.

The two leaders are anticipated to debate how the 2 nations can work collectively to strengthen financial ties by means of new jobs, advance democracy and promote orderly migration.

The Central American nation has emerged as an immigration hotspot, as migrants more and more journey by means of the damaging Darien Gap from Colombia into Central America and north into Costa Rica.

In June, Costa Rica and the U.S. agreed to open potential authorized pathways to the United States for among the Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants who're among the many 240,000 asylum seekers within the Central American nation. Last yr, Nicaraguans accounted for 9 out of 10 candidates.

The settlement was aimed toward decreasing the strain on Costa Rica’s overwhelmed asylum system and heading off asylum seekers who may quit on the sluggish course of in Costa Rica, and as an alternative set off for the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. is grappling with rising numbers of migrants to the U.S.-Mexico border and clamped down on unlawful crossings whereas providing expanded pathways following the top of pandemic-era restrictions on the border.

Chaves stated in December the insurance policies had been being abused by folks trying solely to return work after which go away, and the insurance policies can be tightened. As another, officers provided a two-year work allow for Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Cubans in alternate for dropping their longer-term asylum circumstances.

Costa Rica, a nation of roughly 5 million folks, can be grappling with rising crime and homicide, blamed largely on violence associated to drug trafficking. The nation, as soon as a passthrough for medication shifting from South America to the U.S., is more and more changing into an necessary hub - and there’s a rising home market, too. Chaves has promised a rise in police presence.

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