Donald Trump’s Border Czar Says He is in Talks with Third-Party Nations to Take Deported Migrants

By admin On Jan 14, 2025

Donald Trump’s border czar says he is in talks with third-party nations to take deported migrants:

Donald Trump’s incoming border czar Tom Homan signaled Sunday that he is close to finding a nation that will take deported migrants whose home country will not accept them.

The scheme is a key part of Trump’s plan for what he calls the ‘largest deportation in history.

But it comes with a snag. What to do with illegal immigrants from countries that don’t want them back?

Homan told DailyMail.com that he is already in negotiations to find an alternative destination in countries that are prepared to house them.

‘I’m not waiting for January 20 [when Trump is inaugurated], said Homan. ‘We are already having discussions. So we’ll find a third country.

‘Until they’ve signed an agreement, and we’ve got that, I’m not going to take any credit.’

The idea has floated around Washington, D.C., for months, inspired in part by the way the United Kingdom struck a deal with the small African nation of Rwanda to house refugees.

However, that scheme was hindered by round after round of legal challenge and finally abandoned by the new Labour government of Keir Starmer this year.

And a Trump effort in 2019 to send migrants from third countries was challenged by The American Civil Liberties Union and other immigrant rights groups, which said sending vulnerable people to unfamiliar countries put them at risk.

Homan declined to discuss which countries he was in talks with.

But previous reports suggested Turks and Caicos, the Bahamas, Panama and Grenada were possible destinations.

The Bahamas has since ruled out the idea. But Guatemala may provide an alternative after an official told Reuters the country might be open to the idea.

Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration the cornerstone of his reelection campaign.

And Homan, a former police officer and the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Trump’s first term, will have a key role.

He said Trump had given him three priorities: Securing the border; launching a deportation drive; and hunting down what he said were 300,000 undocumented children who had gone missing in the U.S.