Costa Rica, for its part, has sought to downplay its decision to take in people from distant countries. Officials say it as a one-time request from the U.S. government that involves a negligible ...

And last month, Costa Rica returned passports to people it had detained in a former pencil factory, allowing them to leave if they so wished. El Salvador, however, is different.

Telemundo Puerto Rico reported a Puerto Rican mother, her 3-year-old son and mother-in-law were taken into custody by ICE while shopping at an unnamed store in Milwaukee on Jan. 24.