FG reacts as Trump ready’s to deport 3,690 Nigerians from US | READ DETAILS
As president Donald Trump continues the crackdown on illegal immigrants in the United States of America, USA, about 3,690 Nigerians risks deportation.
According to a document compiled by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations, there are 1,445,549 non-citizens on ICE’s non-detained docket with final removal orders as of November 24, 2024.
In the document titled “Noncitizens on the ICE Non-Detained Docket with Final Orders of Removal by Country of Citizenship”, Mexico and El Salvador top the list of nations facing the most deportation, with 252,044 and 203,822, respectively.
The ICE is charged with the responsibility of protecting America from cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security.
Recall that on Thursday last week, hundreds of migrants were arrested, and others flew out of the country on military aircraft as Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation operation got underway.
Reacting to this development, the Director of Media and Corporate Affairs of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, NiDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, in an interview with Vanguard on Tuesday evening, said;
“The Federal Government has set up an inter-agency committee, comprising the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NiDCOM, Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, should there be mass deportation of Nigerians from the US.”
However, the NiDCOM spokesperson stressed that its commission was not aware of Nigerians in America being processed for deportation.
