Trump administration in talks with Rwanda for migrant deal
The Trump administration is in talks with Rwanda about a deal to take in migrants deported from the US, the African state's foreign minister has confirmed.
'It has not yet reached a stage where we can say exactly how things will proceed, but talks ongoing [with the US] … are in the early stages,' Olivier Nduhungirehe said in an interview on Sunday night with Rwanda TV, the state broadcaster.
Rwanda has long positioned itself as a willing recipient of deportees from western countries, but schemes to host them in large numbers have repeatedly been thwarted by legal challenges.
As part of a far-reaching clampdown on migrants, President Trump has pledged to deport millions of people who are in the US illegally or have criminal records.
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