The migrants from around the world did not know where they were or what would happen to them, according to an independent government entity.

A U.S. flight carrying 135 deportees, half of them minors, from various countries was set to land in Costa Rica, making it the second Latin American nation to serve as a stopover for migrants.

Costa Rica's government received its first group of mostly Asian migrants deported from the United States on Thursday, part of a deal with Washington to temporarily house up to 200 deportees from other nations.