The Trump administration has reached a deal with third-party countries, including four in Africa, to accept U.S. deportation.
Published on August 28, 2025
Rwanda announces receiving seven people Deported As part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, it comes from the United States.
A Rwanda government spokesman said Thursday that the deported person arrived in mid-August, marking the first transfer protocol This could result in as many as 250 people reaching Central African countries.
“Three people expressed their desire to return to their homeland, while four people wanted to stay and build their lives in Rwanda,” spokesman Yolande Makolo said in a statement.
“Whatever their specific needs are, all of these people will receive proper support and protection from the Rwandan government.”
Marcolo stressed that the Rwandan government “scrutinized” the deported people before it arrived.
She added that they are currently being “accommodated by international organizations” and will receive visits from local social services and international organizations of migrants.
Rwanda is the fourth African country, agreeing to accept deportation from non-citizens along with Uganda, Eswatini and South Sudan.
The United States declined to comment on the recent deportation, and the identities of seven people have not been disclosed publicly.
Deportation Under President Trump, immigrants without human relationships and asylum seekers have been an evolving practice.
Government officials believe this strategy is essential for immigrants and asylum seekers who cannot return to their country of origin.
But this approach has been strongly opposed by rights groups, who question whether Trump’s choice of third countries would be safe, many of whom have poor human rights records.
For example, Eswatini is considered an absolute monarchy, amid intolerance of objections.
A government spokesman there has said that the five deportations it received in July will be in solitary confinement in the country’s prisons.
Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, a lawyer who was expelled, filed court documents saying he was denied access with clients. Rights groups protested deportation and court challenges were underway.
Immigration rights advocates also believe that deportation from third countries is unnecessary cruelty because they condemn immigrants and asylum seekers to live in places where part of the world may not speak language or understand culture.
They also questioned the deportation of imprisonment in some third-party countries. Some have no criminal record, while others have spent some time in prison and were later reincarcerated.
Some third-party advocates also say that this approach treats its homeland as “Garbage yardFor immigration.
Earlier this month, some concerns about human rights appeared to be foreseeing, and Marcolo said those expelled from Rwanda would receive assistance, including “labor force training, health care and accommodation support to promote their lives”.
Critics speculate that the Trump administration may be using third-country deportation to avoid censorship of its own detention centers in the United States.
Trump ran for re-election in 2024, demanding a mass deportation campaign and claiming immigration has become an “invasion” led by “criminals.”
He promised that the effort would constitute the “largest deportation operation” in U.S. history.
According to reports Bahamas Accept non-citizen deportation. The Bahamas refused.
But shortly after taking office in January, Trump began sending immigrants and asylum seekers to third-party countries such as Panama and El Salvador, whose residences were Hundreds Venezuela expulsion Terrorism Incarceration Center (Cecot), this is notorious Human Rights Violation.
Countries like Rwanda also use themselves as alternative places to receive deported immigrants.
However, the Rwanda-backed armed groups themselves are accused of forced displacement and illegal deportation in an ongoing armed conflict in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.







