Uganda receives first US deportation flight under third-country agreement

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Uganda receives first US deportation flight under third-country agreement

A flight carrying people being deported from the US has landed in Uganda under a third-country agreement, but critics say the process is dehumanising and legal challenges are expected.

Dozen people arrive under new deal but legal challenges expected with scheme criticised as ‘dehumanising process’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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