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Seven immigrants who were deported from the United States arrived in Rwanda, the first among the 250 of the African state is expected to take over under an agreement with the administration of President Donald Trump.

“The first group of seven migrants was examined to Rwanda in mid -August,” said Rwandan government spokesman Yulandic McCulo.

There were no details of their nationalities, explaining only that four of them will remain in Rwanda, with three choice to return to their countries of origin.

Rights groups have warned that such deportation could penetrate international law if people are sent to the countries where they risk torture or other violations.

Trump has focused on a comprehensive collective deportation plan to remove immigrants who are not documented from the United States since the start of his second term in January.

So far, at least dozens of countries have agreed to accept migrants who have been deported from other countries.

“Regardless of their own needs, all of these individuals will receive the appropriate support and protection from the Rwandan government,” Mrs. McCulo told the New Times website in Rwanda, Rwanda.

She added that an “international organization” was deported by an “international organization” and will be visited by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and Rwandan social services.

An IOM spokesman told Agence France -Presse that she had seen immigrants to “assess their basic needs”, without providing more details.

Earlier this month, Mrs. McCulo BBC told Rwanda to advance in the deal as “almost every Rwandan family has witnessed the difficulties of displacement.”

Rwanda went through a collective genocide in the mid -1990s – and the government was keen to extend assistance to other immigrants, and to maintain it can provide a safe place for them despite criticism of the human rights record.

Under an agreement reached with the United Nations Refugee Agency and the African Union six years ago, Nearly 3,000 refugees and asylum seekers were evacuated in Libya to Rwanda between September 2019 and April 2025. The United Nations says that many of these people have been resettled later elsewhere.

Rwanda concluded a deal with the United Kingdom, and agreed with the conservative government in 2022, to accept asylum seekers.

But the UK canceled the planWho faced many legal challenges, after the government of the Labor Party’s government took office in July last year.

The UK Rwanda paid 240 million pounds ($ 310 million), until building places to accommodate asylum seekers. It is not clear what happened to these facilities.

It is also not clear whether there is a financial element for the last Rwanda deal.

In June, the Trump administration supervised Signing a peace agreement in Washington between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo As part of the continuous peace process that aims to end three decades of instability in the region.

Kigali was accused of supporting the M23 rebel group involved in the conflict in the neighboring Congo – an accusation that he denied.