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Has Uganda reached a deal with the Trump Administration to take in undocumented deportees, as some news outlets (like CBS News) is reporting?
The purported deal is being denied by Uganda.
In a Reuters interview, Uganda’s state minister for foreign affairs, Henry Oryem Okello, said, “To the best of my knowledge we have not reached such an agreement. We do not have the facilities and infrastructure to accommodate such illegal immigrants in Uganda. So, we cannot take in such illegal immigrants.”
But CBS News reports that it received access to “internal government documents” that “indicate Uganda in East Africa recently agreed to accept deportees from the U.S. who hail from other countries on the continent, as long as they don’t have criminal histories. It’s unclear how many deportees Uganda would ultimately accept under the arrangement with the U.S. government.”
Honduras has reportedly agreed to a deal, with the Trump Administration, to take Spanish-speaking deportees into their country.
CBS News states that the, “Honduras’ government has also agreed to receive deportees from other Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, including families traveling with children, the documents show. The government of Honduras agreed to a relatively small number of deportations — just several hundred over two years — but the documents indicate it could decide to accept more.”
According to CBS News, “At least a dozen countries have already accepted or agreed to accept deportees from other nations since the second Trump administration took office.”
Costa Rica and Panama are said to have agreed to take in hundreds of deportees of African and Asian descent. The Trump Administration has also contacted Spain and Ecuador about taking in deportees.
According to CBS News, an official form the State Department said, “We don’t comment on the content of private diplomatic negotiations, but the State Department is doing everything possible to support the President’s policy of keeping Americans safe by removing illegal aliens who have no right to be in the United States.”
The sending of deportees to so-called “safe third countries” has been denounced by human rights organizations. The African countries of South Sudan, Eswatini, and Rwanda have already made similar deals to take deportees.
Ironically, CBS News coverage notes that in, “a report released last week, the State Department described “negative developments in the human rights situation in Uganda,” citing unlawful killings, “arbitrary” arrests, disappearances and a lack of action from the government to curb human rights abuses. The report also noted, however, that Uganda has worked with United Nations officials to provide humanitarian protection to refugees.
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