The United States President Donald Trump has asked some African countries to accept deported migrants who are not African citizens.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States sent proposals to five West African presidents, asking them to take in migrants whose home countries won’t accept them.
Nigeria has rejected the United States request, citing they have bigger problems at home.
These are not citizens of those African nations, but people the U.S. wants to offload because their home countries have refused to take them back.
Nigeria’s Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar made the country’s position crystal clear: “We have enough problems of our own… We cannot accept Venezuelan deportees to Nigeria, for crying out loud,” he said.
On Tuesday, the United States says it has deported five “criminal illegal aliens” to the kingdom of Eswatini. The deportees are from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen, and have been convicted of crimes ranging from child rape to murder, according to the US Homeland Security Department.
Earlier this month, the United States sent eight migrants from several countries to South Sudan after a court lifted restrictions on sending people to countries where they have no ties.
