The country initially agreed to accept the deportees. As a result, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked all visas for South Sudanese passport holders. It is not clear if that has now changed.
Last week, Nigeria said it would not bow to pressure from the Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees or third-country prisoners from the US.
The West African country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar had held that Nigeria will not bow to pressure from the Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees or third-country prisoners from the US.
Quoting 1990s American rappers Public Enemy to make his point, Tuggar maintained that Nigeria has problems of its own with over 230 million people in the Africa’s most populous country.
“In the words of the famous US rap group Public Enemy… You’ll remember a line from Flava Flav – a member of the group – who said: ‘Flava Flav has problems of his own. I can’t do nothin’ for you, man’,
“We already have over 230 million people,” the minister said in an interview with Channels TV.
President Donald Trump’s pledge to conduct mass deportations was a centrepiece of his election campaign and an issue on which he drew widespread support, including many Hispanic voters.
He said he wanted to deport people living in the US illegally, but White House efforts have been much broader in scope – taking aim at people in the US on student visas, suspending admissions of refugees except white South Africans, and moving to revoke temporary work permits and other protections that had been granted to immigrants by previous presidents.
To crack down on immigrants, Trump’s administration has resumed raids at workplaces, a tactic that had been suspended under his predecessor, Joe Biden.
