{"id":53041,"date":"2025-02-18T07:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T07:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-deports-first-batch-of-nigerians-amid-immigration-clampdown\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T07:17:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T07:17:45","slug":"us-deports-first-batch-of-nigerians-amid-immigration-clampdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-deports-first-batch-of-nigerians-amid-immigration-clampdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US deports first batch of Nigerians amid immigration clampdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, confirmed the arrival on Monday in a post on X with the caption, \u201cUS Deportations Begin,\u201d according to Hallmark News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first group will be convicted prisoners, those who committed crimes and are in US prisons. Some of them are those who have clearly violated US immigration laws,\u201d U.S. Ambassador Richard Mills Jr. told reporters in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey appealed but were denied yet they are still in the US. They have committed immigration crimes, people who have been ordered to leave,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

But Odumegwu-Ojukwu warned the U.S. to act with \u2018dignity.\u2019 \u201cWith the new administration in the US, we want a situation where there will be commitments. If there will be repatriation, we want a dignified return,\u201d she exclaimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill there be any way of ameliorating their pains? This has been of great concern to not just Nigerian nationals in the US but family members in Nigeria who depend on them for survival, children whose school fees are paid for by these diasporans,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are asking as a country whether they will be given ample time to handle their assets or will they just be bundled into planes and repatriated? It will really be traumatic, especially for those who had not committed any violent crime,\u201d Odumegwu-Ojukwu piously proclaimed.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, as Nigerian officials lament having to take back their own citizens who illegally entered the U.S.A., the African country recently celebrated its own campaign of deportations with the announcement that 828 illegal migrants into Nigeria were deported last year.<\/p>\n

U.S. immigration officials have detained 201 Nigerians for deportation back to their home country as the first plane with 85 of those detainees landed in Lagos on Monday. This has left the left a widely divided public opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cFG ready to welcome deported Nigerians from US’. NiDCOM says as 3,690 Nigerians in US face deportation. When you see them around, respect them and give them their caps; they are heroes. it’s not easy,\u201d Ilesanmi Oluwakayode Samuel, a facbook user said.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration his shipped its first planeload of 85 Nigerians, who were in the U.S. illegally, back to Nigeria as the African nation warns U.S. officials to handle deportations \u201cwith dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000081809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081809,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53041"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53041"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}