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Nigeria rejects US push to accept Venezuelan deportees

Nigeria's Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Tuggar says his country cannot take in deportees from Venezuela. AFP - EMMANUEL CROSET

Nigeria has pushed back on accepting Venezuelans deported from the United States, after US media reported President Donald Trump was urging African countries to take in deportees from around the world.

Deporting people to third countries has been a hallmark of the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented migrants, notably by sending hundreds to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

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