Rwanda has struck a deal to accept up to 250 deportees from the United States as part of a third-country deportation plan.
According to an Aug. 5 announcement from the Rwanda government, the nation will accept up to 250 deportees who are neither citizens of the United States nor of Rwanda.
Under the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, 13 illegal immigrants have already been sent to the African nations of Sudan and Eswatini.
The administration previously deported hundreds of Venezuelans and others from countries without U.S. deportation agreements to Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama.
Rwanda, a nation in Central Africa with a population of approximately 15 million, entered into talks with the United States about third-country deportation in May of this year….