Ugandan official denies reports that it will take US deportees

US authorities documents obtained by CBS had said Trump signed deals with Uganda and Honduras to instrumentality overseas deportees.

A elder Ugandan authoritative has denied media reports saying that the state had agreed to instrumentality successful radical deported from the United States, saying it lacked the facilities to accommodate them.

Citing interior US authorities documents, CBS News reported connected Tuesday that Washington had reached deportation deals with Uganda and Honduras arsenic portion of its thrust to measurement up expulsions of migrants to countries wherever they bash not person citizenship.

“To the champion of my knowledge, we person not reached specified an agreement,” the curate told Anadolu.

“We bash not person the capableness to accommodate specified overseas deportees from the United States successful Uganda,” helium added.

US President Donald Trump aims to deport millions of immigrants who the medication says person entered the US illegally, and sought to summation removals to 3rd countries.

The CBS study said the agreements with Uganda and Honduras were based connected a proviso of US migration instrumentality that allows radical seeking asylum to beryllium rerouted to 3rd countries if the US authorities determines those nations tin reasonably perceive their claims.

So far, astatine slightest 3 African countries – South Sudan, Rwanda, and Eswatini – person agreed to judge migrants deported from the US.

Last month, the US sent 13 deportees it described arsenic unsafe criminals who were successful the US illegally to South Sudan and Eswatini.

Human rights activists person condemned the policy, saying migrants look the hazard of being sent to countries wherever they could beryllium harmed.