Mass Deportation Threats: No Place Like Home, You Will Be Welcomed- FG Tells Nigerians in Diaspora
Israel Adeleke
OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News reports that following the crackdown policy of the United States under its newly elected President, Donald Trump, the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, (NIDCOM) has said that the Federal Government is ready to welcome deported Nigerians from the United States.
OTN News further reports that this update which was disclosed by the Director of Media and Corporate Affairs of the commission, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, in an interview with the press, earlier this week, said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was in charge of such development.
Giving further details, Balogun said that FG had already set up an inter-agency committee to handle the matter should Nigerians be deported from the US.
His explained, “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.”
The NiDCOM spokesperson, however, stressed that its commission was not aware of Nigerians in America being processed for deportation.
Subsequently, OTN News had earlier reported that about 3,690 Nigerians in the United States are faced with deportation as Donald Trump crackdown on illegal immigrants in the country.
OTN recalls that this policy which was in a document compiled by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations, revealed that the data is broken down by nationality and number of people faced with deportation.
Furthermore, the document titled “Noncitizens on the ICE Non-Detained Docket with Final Orders of Removal by Country of Citizenship,” has Mexico and El Salvador top the list of nations facing the most deportation, with 252,044 and 203,822, respectively.
OTN News also recalls that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were empowered by the Trump's administration to deport immigrants with illegal documentation.
The ICE is charged with the responsibility of protecting America from cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security.
Meanwhile, on Thursday last week, hundreds of migrants were reportedly arrested, and others flew out of the country on military aircraft as Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation operation got underway.
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