Rwanda 'in discussions' with US to receive deported migrants: report

Rwanda is reportedly "in discussions with the United States" to person migrants deported by the Trump administration. 

Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe told authorities broadcaster Rwanda TV connected Sunday that the East African state "has not yet reached a signifier wherever we tin accidental precisely however things volition proceed, but the talks are ongoing ... inactive successful the aboriginal stages," according to Reuters. "We are successful discussions with the United States."

A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital connected Monday that implementing the Trump administration's migration policies is simply a apical precedence and that it is moving intimately with partners and determination leaders to extremity the situation of amerciable and wide migration. 

The spokesperson added that ongoing engagement with overseas governments is captious to accomplishing that extremity but noted that the State Department does not publically sermon the details of its diplomatic communications.

RWANDAN PRESIDENT PRAISES ‘UNCONVENTIONAL’ TRUMP, SAYS ‘WE MIGHT LEARN SOME LESSONS’ WITH USAID SHUTDOWN 

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Rwanda Olivier Nduhungirehe addresses the Human Rights Council astatine the United Nations successful Geneva connected Feb 26. (Reuters/Denis Balibouse)

Rwanda’s overseas ministry did not instantly respond Monday to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital. 

At a Cabinet gathering past week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, "We person gone to countries each implicit the satellite and said, ‘Hey, you privation bully relations with the United States, you request to instrumentality backmost your radical that are present illegally.' And we've had historical cooperation. Beyond that, and I accidental this unapologetically, we are actively searching for different countries to instrumentality radical from 3rd countries.  

"So we are actively – not conscionable El Salvador – we are moving with different countries to say, ‘We privation to nonstop you immoderate of the astir despicable quality beings to your countries, volition you bash that arsenic a favour to us?' And the further distant from America the better, truthful they can’t travel backmost crossed the border," Rubio added. 

TRUMP QUESTIONS JUDGES WHO BLOCK DEPORTATIONS OF ‘CRIMINALS, INCLUDING MURDERERS’ 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, said astatine an April 30 Cabinet gathering that the U.S. is looking for countries to instrumentality successful "some of the astir despicable quality beings." (Getty Images)

In a 2023 report connected the quality rights concern successful Rwanda, the State Department said "significant" issues exist, specified arsenic "credible reports of arbitrary oregon unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; harsh and life-threatening situation conditions; arbitrary apprehension oregon detention; governmental prisoners oregon detainees; transnational repression against individuals successful different country; arbitrary oregon unlawful interference with privacy," among different allegations. 

Rwanda antecedently had an statement with the United Kingdom successful 2022 to judge thousands of asylum seekers, but that woody was scrapped past twelvemonth by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Reuters reported. 

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a circuit of the Terrorist Confinement Center connected March 26 successful Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP 

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said successful February that "President Trump has an unconventional mode of doing things," and "I wholly hold with him connected galore things." 

Fox News Digital's Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.