Six Nigerians deported from US over sundry offences, Trump threatens to cut funding to uncooperative states and sanctuary cities
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Six Nigerians have been deported from the United States among at least 3,000 said to be involved in various crimes who have fallen victim to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on (Black) immigrants while he has just airlifted some (White) South African farmers to settle in Yankee country as refugees.
The deportees arrived on Wednesday aboard a Delta Airlines flight at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos at about 9am and were received by officials of government agencies who will determine the next line of action.
Under the Trump administration, Washington intends to carry out more deportations to streamline immigration in the US.
Trump began an unprecedented mass immigration crackdown within days of his second term in office in January, detaining more people for immigration violations and ordering arrests outside schools and courthouses.
He said he would ramp up workplace raids to find undocumented immigrants.
And on Monday, he signed an executive order directing his Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security to compile a list of so-called “sanctuary cities” found to be not cooperating sufficiently with federal deportation efforts.
The number of immigration arrests at workplaces has tripled since Trump took office, according to Trump’s border czar Tom Homan and “it’s going to triple again,” he stressed.
Trump vowed on the campaign trail to reinstate workplace raids largely curtailed under the Joe Biden administration.
Trump threatened in the latest executive order to cut federal funding to cities and states his administration deems uncooperative in his mass deportation drive.
In the order, he gave Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a May 28 deadline to publish a list of cities, counties, and states obstructing “the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”
He also directed every federal agency to identify funds “for suspension or termination.”
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