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Pedro Camacho

Nigeria Pushes Back Against Trump's Proposal to Offload Venezuelan Deportees: 'We Have Enough Problems of Our Own'

Nigeria's Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar (Credit: Photo by ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Nigeria has rejected a proposal by the Trump administration to accept Venezuelan deportees and other third-country migrants from the United States.

The country's foreign minister, Yusuf Tuggar, confirmed the decision in an interview while in Brazil, where he was attending a BRICS summit:

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