Burkina Faso Refuses to Accept Deported Citizens from US

Burkina Faso has rejected one of President Donald Trump’s signature immigration policies by refusing to accept those expelled from the United States. Deporting people to third countries, frequently to countries they have no relationship to, has been a feature of Trump’s administration’s broad immigration crackdown since he returned to the White House. Across Africa, Eswatini, Ghana, Rwanda and South Sudan have all received people expelled from the United States in recent months. However, Burkina Faso’s foreign affairs minister stated late Thursday that the west African nation had turned down Washington’s…