U.S. Pushes More African Countries to Accept Deported Migrants
Story by Robbie Gramer, Alexander Ward, Tarini Parti • 9h
WASHINGTON—As President Trump met Wednesday with the leaders of five West African countries, his administration was pushing them to accept migrants deported by the U.S. whose home countries refuse them or are slow to take them back, according to an internal document and current and former U.S. officials.
Before the leaders of Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon and Guinea-Bissau arrived at the White House for the summit on economic and security issues, the State Department sent each country requests to take in migrants, underscoring the overlap between the administration’s aggressive deportation campaign and its foreign policy.
Trump appeared to allude to the U.S. requests during the Wednesday summit. “I hope we can bring down the high rates of people overstaying visas, and also make progress on the safe third country agreements,” he said during opening remarks.
The U.S. proposal calls for the countries to accept the “dignified, safe, and timely transfer from the United States” of third country nationals, according to an internal State Department document provided to governments in the region that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
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