Washington CBS News learned that the Rwandan government and the Trump administration are discussing details about a potential agreement on Kigali to accept U.S. deportation, including Africans and other non-Rossdan nationals.
A Rwandan official said the decision to accept potential economic compensation for the deportees and other details will be discussed in the next two weeks. A U.S. official and a Rwandan official confirmed active negotiations on sending third-country deportees from the United States to East African countries.
At a television cabinet meeting event earlier this week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was actively looking for other countries to attract immigrants expelled from the United States
“We are working with other countries, ‘We want to send you some of the meanest human beings,'” Rubio added, “The further away from the United States, the better.”
Rwanda’s arrangement was first reported by The Washington Post, which also quoted the work of an independent journalist who discovered the recent deportation of Iraqi nationals to Rwanda.
A Rwandan official told CBS News that the Trump administration did conduct deportations but did not share other information about the man. Rwandan officials also told CBS News that Kigali has a unique past experience in dealing with people who were expelled and cites a Dealing with the UK in the past. The UK’s deportation of asylum seekers in 2024 sparked legal and political controversy over the then conservative British government. After taking office last year, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer immediately said the policy was “dead and buried”.
Trump administration Have seen it A third country handles the influx of immigrants in the United States and tries to deport them. El Salvador There is an arrangement With the Trump administration accepting deported people and imprisonment Some of them are chargedincluding at the infamous Cecot prison, the move led to Legal litigation. Other countries, including Mexico and Panama, also agreed to accept expelled people who are not their own nationals.
The dialogue with the State Department was at the same time the United States tried to reach a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In front of the camera, Rubio also praised Mr. Trump’s envoy for going to Massad Boulos, Massachusetts, for his visit to Africa, Massachusetts. Who is Tiffany Trump’s father-in-lawand said he recently sent him to the area. Boulos, who holds the title of senior consultant in Africa, talks publicly about his efforts to trade billion-dollar minerals in the region.
Rubio also said he recently oversees the signing of a peace declaration between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda and said he hopes to lead to a lasting permanent peace.
