Rwanda is in conversations with the Trump administration to take deportened migrants in the United States, said Foreign Minister of the Central African Nation, Sunday night.
It was not clear if an agreement would make it with complete migrants who had already deported or those who will be in the future, but I could also make Rwanda the first African country to enter an agreement with the United States.
Rwanda Foreign Minister Olivier JP Nduhungyarehe said on Sunday that the government of his country was in the “initial stage” conversations about receiving sports from the third country in the United States.
“It is true that we are in conversations with the United States,” said Mr. NDUHUNGEREHE in an interview with Ruanda TV, the state station. “These conversations are still lighting, and it would be premature to conclude how they will develop,” he added.
The Rwanda government did not respond to a request for comments.
A state department spokesman refused to discuss the details of the conversations, but said: “The commitment made to foreign governments is vital to deter illegal and massive migration and ensure our borders.”
Rwanda has long positioned himself as a partner of Western nations to stop migration, offering to provide asylum to migrants or the house while waiting for resettlement elsewhere, sometimes in exchange for payment. Mr. NDUHUNGIREHE did not say if Rwanda would be paid for the agreement.
Critics say that sending asylum applicants to Rwanda is insecure, the poor history of Cittry’s human rights, its limited resources and the previous intimidation and surveillance of the authorities of migrants and refugees.
The Trump administration has deployed a hard line number or tactics to stop migration, including deportation of individuals on well -advertised flights. Trump invoked a centenary law in March to deport hundreds of alleged gang members of Venezuela to El Salvador, even when a federal judge sought to stop flights. Washington has been looking for more countries willing to take people expelled from the United States.
The Trump administration has also been asking countries to recover their own citizens who have been deported from the United States and taking punitive measures against those nations that refuse to do so. At the beginning of April, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked visas for all citizens of southern Sudan in the middle of a dispute over the failure of the Eastern Africa country to accept a deported migrant.
If Ruanda agrees with an agreement with the Trump administration, it would be the last agreement of the African country to take migrants.
The small nation without a coast hosts hundreds of African refugees from Libya waiting for resettlement in a joint association with the United Nations Refugee Agency. He has also signed an agreement with Denmark to improve cooperation in asylum and migration, and entered a secret association with Israel to receive deported African migrants.
Rwanda agreed an agreement with Great Britain to receive asylum applicants from the third country in 2022 in a contentious plan that was later illegal by the British Supreme Court. Last year, the British government approved legislation to annul the Court’s decision and declare a “safe country.”
Only four people voluntarily went to Rwanda under the plan, and when the conservatives lost the general elections last July, the new Labor Government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer discarded the agreement. The program cost the British taxpayers 715 million pounds, or around $ 949 million, with about 290 million pounds going to Rwanda. The Rwanda government has said that it will not pay the money.
The discussions between Rwanda and the United States were reported for the first time by the hands basket and coincided with an effort from the United States to mediate in a peace agreement in the war between Rwanda and the neighboring democratic republic of the Congo.
The Handbasket and Reuters news agency also reported that the United States deported an Iraqi refugee, Omar Abdulstar Amen, Rwanda. Mr. NDUHUNGIREHE did not refer to that case duration of his interview on Rwanda TV.
Arafat Mugabo Contributed reports.
