92 Africans Deported From USA

90 Somalis and 2 Kenyans arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya, on Wednesday, after being deported from the United States Of America.

 

According to reports, the deportees were said to have arrived at the airport at midday aboard Omni, an American Charter Airline, while the Somalis reportedly boarded a Juba Airways flight that left for Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, at 3pm.

According to Daily Nation, a Kenyan newspaper, witnesses at the airport were quoted to have said the travellers were escorted by security officers from the US.

Zipporah Waweru, an official of Jomo Kenyatta airport, confirmed that there had been a plane carrying Somalis in transit to Mogadishu, but she could not confirm whether they were deportees because 

“They have left and to me, they looked happy so I cannot for sure tell you that they were deported or not,”.

The Somalis and Kenyan deportees are the first set of Africans to be affected by the immigration policy of President Donald Trump, who has vowed to crack down on millions of immigrants in the US.

Trump had earlier disclosed his plans to sign executive orders which would lead to the imposition of visa ban on 7 predominantly Islam nations – three from Africa.

Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are the countries targeted by President Donald Trump.