Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed
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KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African nation to agree to accept deportees from the United States under the Trump administration’s plans to send migrants to countries they have no ties with to get them off American soil.
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Rwanda has said it agreed to help the Trump administration in its deportation push, by taking in up to 250 migrants. Under the deal, Rwanda could offer resettlement to those eligible.
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African nation to agree to accept deportees from the United States under the Trump administration’s plans to send migrants to countries they have no ties with to get them off American soil.
By Nimi Princewill, Larry Madowo, CNN (CNN) — Rwanda has reached a deal with the Trump administration to take in migrants deported from the United States, becoming the third African nation to do so, amid complaints that governments on the continent are being pressured by the White House to receive t…
Rwanda on Tuesday agreed to accept hundreds of U.S.-deported migrants as part of a broad effort by the Trump administration to get African nations to take in deportees.
The United States and Rwanda have agreed for the African country to potentially accept hundreds of migrants deported from the U.S., the spokesperson for the Rwandan government and an official told Reuters toward immigration.
Rwandan government spokesperson Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press in a statement that the East African country would accept up to 250 deportees from the US, with “the ability to approve each individual proposed for resettlement” under the agreement.
Rwanda agrees to accept up to 250 deportees from the United States under new deal with Trump administration for third-country resettlement of illegal immigrants.
