The Trump administration has struck a new deal with Rwanda to deport up to 250 immigrants, marking another chapter in Trump’s mass removal policy aimed at sending immigrants, mostly Black and brown, to countries they’ve never called home.
This follows the deportation of 13 immigrants sent to South Sudan and Eswatini, also known as Swaziland — both countries have refused to reveal the terms of their agreements.
Trump officials have called the deportees “the worst of the worst,” but critics say the policy is less about crime and more about creating a global system to offshore U.S. immigrants.
Rwanda, which previously struck and then scrapped a controversial migrant deal with the U.K., is no stranger to being paid to take migrants. That plan was ruled unlawful by Britain’s top court.
Now the U.S. is stepping into the same shadows.
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