(25 Jun 2025)
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San Jose, Costa Rica – 25 June 2025
1. Various of Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem arriving to sign memorandum of understanding
2. Pan from cameras to Noem and Chaves giving a statement
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristi Noem, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security:
"We appreciate his (President Chaves’) ability to be positive and progressive on this (fight against drugs) because we know that many times those dangerous drugs are coming through Costa Rica before they get to the United States. And so we are extremely grateful and are going to help him with that."
4. Various of Noem signing memorandum of understanding next to Chaves
5. Noem, Chaves and officials holding meeting
6. Attendees listening to speech
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristi Noem, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security:
"Costa Rica, with the security agreements that we have with them and that we are signing as well and agreeing to under memorandums of understanding today are going to be historical in their nature in what they create. They will give us the most advanced information that we need to know on people who could come into our countries that could do us harm."
8. Camera recording Chaves
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Rodrigo Chaves, President of Costa Rica:
"Her (Noem’s) presence is a clear and direct recognition of the commitment of two allied nations (U.S. and Costa Rica) in the fight against drug trafficking, international crime, unwelcome influences from other regions and illegal immigration."
10. Noem during Chaves speech
11. Noem and Chaves shaking hands at end of remarks to the press
STORYLINE:
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem recognized Wednesday Costa Rica’s support in the Trump administration’s fight against drugs and irregular migrants.
Noem praised President Rodrigo Chaves for "his ability to be positive and progressive on this because we know that many times those dangerous drugs are coming through Costa Rica before they get to the United States."
"We are extremely grateful and are going to help him with that," she added.
After a bilateral meeting, Noem and Chaves signed a memorandum of understanding on security and information sharing.
Costa Rica has received hundreds of deportees from various nations sent by the United States as President Donald Trump’s administration tries to accelerate deportations.
This was Noem’s second stop on a Central America trip that will also take her to Honduras and Guatemala.
Noem kicked off her trip Tuesday in Panama, where she met with President José Raúl Mulino and viewed a deportation flight bound for Colombia.
Noem has been among the more high-profile members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet, traveling extensively and maintaining a robust social media presence.
She is often the public face of his mass deportation effort, frequently goes out on immigration enforcement operations and has appeared in commercials encouraging immigrants in the country illegally to voluntarily leave the U.S.
AP Video by Berny Araya
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