- Rights activists wrong Uganda-us deal about accepting deportees, asking: “Are they refugees or prisoners?”
- Human rights lawyer Nicholas Opio: “We are sacrificing people for political opportunity; in this case because Uganda wants to be in the good books of the United States.”
- Foreign Affairs Office says that conversations with Washington are limited to: “Visa, rates, sanctions and related issues.”
Law activists and opposition leaders in Uganda have thrown away the agreement between President Kaguta Museveni and the government of Donald Trump to accept thousands of deportees from the US, and say that the deal is related to committing human trafficking.
According to the Ugandan human rights lawyer Nicholas Opio, the deal between the US and the East African country, which is still in the pipeline, offers no clear status of the deportees. “Are they refugees or prisoners?” he asked.
“The proposed deal is in international law. We sacrifice people for political opportunity; in this case because Uganda wants to be in the good books of the United States,” he added. “That I can keep you prisoners if you pay me; how does that differ from human trafficking?”
DEAL BEK President Museveni Legitimity
In the same wavelength, the rival of President Museveni and legislator Muwada Nkunyingi also criticized the deal, considering the Trump administration for what he mentioned as a tough attempt to offer the legitimacy of the government prior to the general elections.
Instead, Nkunyingi called on the authorities in Washington DC to double the objections of human rights violations and run -out management issues that are moving the government of President Museveni.
Nkunyingi warned that the authorities in the East African country would probably embrace an agreement that helps “to erase their image now that we are going up the 2026 elections.”
On Wednesday, however, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Henry Okello Oryem countered the call of the opposition and activists and noticed that his office was talking to Washington about: “Visa, rates, sanctions and related issues.” Oryem quickly noted that a deal about deportees from the US had not yet been sealed.
“We are talking about cartels: people who are undesirable in their own country. How can we integrate them into local communities in Uganda?” The Minister of Foreign Affairs stated.
Uganda ready to receive deportees without criminal registers
Media reports Show that Kampala is willing to open his country for deportees from the US on condition that the affected persons have no criminal registers. Similarly, the deportees should not be -counseled minors, explained the office of Oryem.
Furthermore, the ministry expressed his wish that those who end up in Kampala should be people from African countries. At the moment it is not clear what Uganda could receive in exchange for accepting deportees from the US
The American embassy in Kampala still has to provide detailed information about what it recently said, was “diplomatic negotiations”, between Kampala and Washington, instead saying that diplomats “policy of Trump to keep Americans safe”.
With an agreement to accept deported immigrants from the US, Uganda will join Rwanda and South Sudan as the countries in Africa who have accepted this deal.
“The agreement is with regard to the nationals of the third country who may not receive an asylum in the United States, but are reluctant to worry about the return to their country of origin,” that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vincent Bagiire of Uganda will not be passed. “
Rwanda, South Sudan already accepts deportees from us
The Trump government has started looking for ways to take care of migrants again to enter the United States illegally and those who have already done this to deport, especially those with criminal registers and that cannot easily be deported to their home country.
Until now, Rwanda has announced that it is ready to receive around 250 migrants. Further details about the nature of the deportees remain unclear from both Kigali and Washington. At the same time, Trump officials have agreed with South Sudan to accept deportees. In July, Washington delivered eight deportees in Juba after a controversy who saw them in Djibouti for weeks.
Since the start of his second term of office, President Trump has overdrive, arrest and Illegal immigrants deport From the US often to countries where they did not come from.
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