The Trump administration weighs migrants to Libya and Rwanda, say sources

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The Trump government spoke to Libya and Rwanda about the opportunity to send migrants, have the criminal records and are in the United States to these two countries, after several sources familiar with the conversations.

The proposals mark a dramatic escalation in the government's advance of preventing people to prevent the United States and removing some of them here to countries, some of which have the previous scratched past. President Donald Trump signed an executive regulation in January in which he cited top officials to facilitate international cooperation and agreements in order to send asylum seekers elsewhere.

In addition to sending migrants with criminal register, Trump officials also hope to take formal negotiations with Libya in order to make a so-called safe third country contract that would enable the United States to send asylum seekers to Libya according to one of the sources. No decision has yet been made and it is unclear which nationalities would be considered.

CNN turned to the Foreign Ministry and a representative of the Libyan Gens Saddam Haftar, who was discussions with civil servants this week in Washington.

Trump officers have previously tried to vote for safe third -party agreements with countries in the western hemisphere in order to reduce the strain on the USL system and the migration of the MINT to the United States. The Trump administration has also expanded the collaboration to work with countries to hang people from the USA, and most recently at El Salvador.

Several sources said that the Foreign Ministry, alongside Libya and Rwanda, is about taking migrants in discussions with other countries.

“I say that we are not looking for other countries to take people from third countries,” said Foreign Minister Marco Rubio on Wednesday at a cabinet meeting.

“We work with other countries to say:” We would like to send you some of the most loathous people to your countries – will you do that as a favor for us? “And the further from America, the better, so you can't return across the border,” he said.

This week, the officials of the Libyan Officials of the Foreign Ministry met with Libyan officials and discussed the proposal to send migrants to the North African country, according to one of the sources.

A potential lever of the United States in all conversations is the likelihood of a further travel ban against visitors from several countries that the Trump government has annoyed but not yet released. Libya was admitted to the ban during Trump's first term.

A report by the United Nations in 2024 indicated years of human rights violations in Libya and concerns about the lack of accountability for the violations. Legal groups and UN agencies have also documented a systematic abuse of migrants in Libya for years, including allegations of forced labor, strikes, rape and torture.

There were also talks between the USA and Rwanda this week to advance a plan for the use of the country for the deportation of immigrants without papers in the USA, according to the sources familiar with the matter.

Rwanda and the USA are discussing a possible agreement in which Rwanda would accept migrants with a criminal register that have already condemned in the United States. The cost structure is still being financed, although the sources said it would probably be higher per person than the total cost per person of the deported to El Salvador because Rwanda would not put people into prison.

Rwanda would instead bring them to society and provide them with social support, such as: B. a scholarship and support in the search for a job on site, said sources. The plan could take weeks for it to get together and use more ad hoc.

The discussion with Rwanda began in the early days of the Trump administration when the Trump government contained a diplomatic note in many countries around the world to measure the interest in working in deportations of illegal migrants in the United States. Rwanda signaled that they were open to such conversations, said sources.

In March, a person was deported to Rwanda from the United States, a transmission that was considered a model that could work on a larger scale, said sources. The person was a refugee from Iraq, Omar Abdulattar Ameen.

The concept is not new to Rwanda because the country was hit in 2022 with the United Kingdom to deport asylum seekers in Great Britain to Rwanda. However, the plan was devoured by legal problems and last year it was hired by the newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starrer, who described the program as “Gimmick”.

The removal of migrants in the third country to Libya and Rwanda should face legal challenges. Last month, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration in order to deport people to countries other than their own, without first giving notice of termination and giving them to contest them.