Temporary Migrant Care Center
| Location | Corredores, Puntarenas, Costa Rica |
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| Status | Operational |
| Capacity | 300 |
| Opened | October 2023 |
| Managed by | Directorate General of Immigration and Nationality |
| Part of a series on the |
| Immigration policy of the second Trump administration |
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The Temporary Migrant Care Center (Spanish: Centro de Atención Temporal a Migrantes, abbreviated CATEM) is a migrant detention and processing facility located in Corredores, Puntarenas, Costa Rica.
CATEM became the subject of increased scrutiny following President Rodrigo Chaves Robles' decision to accept 200 migrants of non-Costa Rican nationality who were removed from the United States as part of the immigration policy of the second Donald Trump administration into Costa Rica, and to detain these migrants at CATEM pending repatriation to their home countries. Prior to this, the facility had primarily been used to serve migrants in transit through Costa Rica.