The Donald Trump administration is persuading countries around the world to agree to receive people of other nationalities deported by the United States, has already established agreements with more countries, such as Honduras and Uganda, and seeks to add other nations to this policy, such as Spain and Ecuador.
This was stated by CBS News this Wednesday based on internal documents to which it has had access, which state that, for example, Uganda has recently agreed to receive deportees from the United States who are nationals of other African countries, as long as they do not have criminal records.
The information is published after the United States resumed deportation flights to third countries last July, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump Administration to carry out these expulsions, which was a victory for the president and his hard-line immigration policies.
Also, the Government of Honduras, presided over by Xiomara Castro, has agreed to receive deportees from other Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, including families with children, according to CBS, which added that the Honduran Executive accepted a “relatively small” number of deportations – “only a few hundred in two years” -, although the document shows that it could decide to accept more.
At least a dozen countries have accepted or agreed to accept deportees of other nationalities since Trump returned to the White House, and U.S. authorities have been “aggressively” courting other governments, CBS News added.
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And he asserted, in this regard, that the Republican Administration has requested other nations such as Spain and Ecuador to receive deportees from the United States from third countries.
When asked about it, a senior State Department official told CBS News that they do not comment on the content of “private diplomatic negotiations,” while adding that the State Department “is doing everything possible to support the president’s policy of keeping America safe by expelling illegal immigrants who are not entitled to be in the United States.”
Since he arrived at the White House in January, where he returned with promises such as large-scale deportations, Trump has promoted express expulsions to countries such as El Salvador, Sudan, and Eswatini.
