Trump’s own Rwanda scheme is under way ...Middle East

WASHINGTON DC – The government of Rwanda may be about to enjoy a migrant-housing payday after all, amid reports that the Trump administration is preparing to tread along the abandoned pathway first created by former UK Prime Ministers Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. 

Nine months after Sir Keir Starmer, on his first day in Number 10, declared the Tories’ Rwanda deportation scheme “dead and buried,” the White House has reportedly begun the process of relocating immigrants to the African nation after striking a very similar deal. 

The first immigrant has already been deported to Rwanda under the terms of an agreement struck in mid-March. As first disclosed by independent reporter Marisa Kabas in her blog The Handbasket, an Iraqi refugee named Omar Abdulsatter Ameen was transferred to Rwanda on 4 April after claiming that he could face a death sentence in his home country, where he faced accusations of murdering a police officer as part of an Isis hit squad. 

Ameen had lived in the United States since November 2014, working as an Uber driver in Sacramento before coming to the attention of the authorities. He was arrested four years later after officials rejected his application for permanent legal residence in the United States. 

Now, Ameen is serving as a test case for the new arrangements between Washington and Kigali. The Rwandan government has told the Trump administration that it is willing to accept more deportees from America, at a time when the US President is urging his top officials to pick up the pace of mass deportations.

The Handbasket reports that at least 10 more people could soon be transferred to Kigali. It is unclear whether any of them is being afforded due process, or whether they are simply being flown out of the country without any access to court hearings and legal appeals.  

In a diplomatic cable, officials at the US Embassy in Kigali reported to the State Department that “Rwanda’s primary motivation…is to improve US relations and show it can advance the America First agenda”. Earlier this month, when Donald Trump unveiled his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on nations worldwide, it was notable that Rwanda secured the same baseline 10 per cent tariff as the UK, while many other African nations were much more severely punished. 

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The diplomatic cable also reported that the authorities in Kigali were seeking an immediate one-time payment of $100,000 (£75,195) “to support social services, residency documents and work permits”. Rwanda also requested “a bilateral dialogue to develop a durable programme to facilitate these relocations and avoid reinventing the wheel with time-intensive ad hoc negotiations”. The country is specifically offering to accept “third-country nationals” (TCNs) like Ameen who – for a variety of reasons – are unable to return to their country of origin. 

Hundreds of Venezuelans have already been deported to a notorious terrorist detention facility in El Salvador in direct contravention of court orders. There, the government of President Nayib Bukele is being paid more $6 million (£4.5m) to incarcerate 238 Venezuelans, a price the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described as a bargain. “That is pennies on the dollar in comparison to the cost…it would impose on the American taxpayer to house these terrorists in maximum security prisons here in the United States of America”, she said on 17 March, two days after the first flights arrived in San Salvador. 

The extent of Trump’s Rwanda plan is unclear. Whether he envisages the African nation becoming a second front alongside El Salvador for the deportation of TCNs, or simply a useful destination for a relatively small number of migrants, for the authorities in Kigali, suddenly a more profitable opportunity may be knocking than their scrapped plan with the authorities in London. 

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