Rwanda in early talks with U.S. to take expelled migrants | Discussions with the Central African country come as the Trump administration looks for more countries willing to accept deportees as part of a sweeping crackdown
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> Rwanda is in talks with the Trump administration about taking in migrants that have been deported from the United States, potentially making it the first African country to enter into such an agreement since President Trump took office and began a sweeping crackdown on migration.
> Rwanda’s foreign minister, Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe, said late on Sunday that his country’s government was in “early stage” talks about receiving third-country deportees from the United States.
> “It is true that we are in discussions with the United States,” Mr. Nduhungirehe said in an interview with Rwanda TV, the state broadcaster. “These talks are still ongoing, and it would be premature to conclude how they will unfold,” he added.
> The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
> Rwanda has long positioned itself as a partner to Western nations seeking to curb migration, offering to provide asylum to migrants or house them as they await resettlement elsewhere, sometimes in return for payment. But critics say that sending asylum seekers to Rwanda is unsafe, citing the country’s poor record on human rights, its limited resources, and the authorities’ previous intimidation and surveillance of migrants and refugees.
!ping IMMIGRATION&AFRICA&FOREIGN-POLICY
This shit is fucking horrific. I wouldn’t want to send our actual fucking *violent criminals* to Rwanada much less asylum seekers who did nothing wrong.
As someone whose wife is here on a GC this shit makes me so fucking nervous. It would raise an eyebrow with any administration. Still, Trump in particular is the only person negligent/stupid enough to hire someone negligent/stupid enough to mix up Australia and Rwanda, as well as a GC holder and an asylum seeker.