Aid, political support, and trade deals might be motivating these controversial agreements
Several poor countries, mostly in Africa, have agreed to take deportees from the United States as part of President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented migrants. What motivates them?
The African nations of Rwanda, South Sudan and eSwatini have already accepted deportees – almost entirely citizens of other countries – as has El Salvador in Central America.
Uganda, too, has agreed to take deportees, including one of the most high-profile cases, a Salvadorean man named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to El Salvador in March, and alleges torture in prison there before being returned to the United States.
The State Department said Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone to Uganda’s long-ruling president Yoweri Museveni last week before announcing Garcia’s deportation, which is currently held up by legal challenges.
