Deported immigrants will be sent to the Congo under new US deal for third-country removals
Source: The Independent
Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program, its government said Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive migrants being deported from the U.S.
The deportees will start arriving in Congo this month, the Congolese Ministry of Communications said in a statement, without further details on the date or the number of deportees expected.
It described the arrangement as a “temporary” one that reflects Congo’s “commitment to human dignity and international solidarity.” It would come with zero costs to the government with the U.S. covering the needed logistics, it said.
The Trump administration has spent at least $40 million to deport about 300 migrants to countries other than their own, according to a report released recently by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-congo-deportation-third-country-b2952268.html
Also from the linked article: Several African nations which have reached similar deals with tRump have repressive governments and very bad human rights records, and many migrants being victimized by this have protection orders from US immigration judges.
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