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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage and agencies

Uganda receives first US deportation flight under third-country agreement

Deported Venezuelan person looking out of airplane window upon arrival in Venezuela. Stars and Stripes flag is on the side of the plane above the window
Deported people looking out of an airplane window during a deportation last year. The US has deported dozens of people to third countries. Photograph: Jesús Vargas/Getty Images

A flight carrying people being deported from the US has landed in Uganda, as Donald Trump’s administration pushes on with its strategy of expelling migrants to countries they have no ties to.

The deported people would stay in the east African country as “a transition phase for potential onward transmission to other countries”, an unnamed senior Ugandan government official told Reuters.

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