Uganda has not agreed with US to take illegal immigrants, foreign affairs official says

Uganda has not reached any agreement with the United States to take in illegal immigrants because it lacks necessary infrastructure to do so, a senior foreign affairs ministry official said on Wednesday.

"To the best of my knowledge we have not reached such an agreement. We do not have the facilities and infrastructure to accommodate such illegal immigrants in Uganda. So, we cannot take in such illegal immigrants,” Okello Oryem, state minister for foreign affairs, told Reuters in a text message.

On Tuesday, CBS News, citing internal documents, reported that Washington had reached deportation deals with Honduras and Uganda as part of its effort to strike more agreements with countries that would accept migrants deported from the US who were not their citizens.

President Donald Trump aims to deport millions of immigrants in the US illegally and his administration has sought to increase removals to third countries, including sending convicted criminals to South Sudan and Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland.