The government of Paraguay has announced that it will accept non-citizens deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive. Paraguay’s Foreign Ministry yesterday announced that an initial group of 25 Spanish-speaking deportees will arrive starting from tomorrow.

 

Paraguay has joined a growing number of countries agreeing to accept third-country deportees from the United States, a system that allows migrants to be sent to nations with which they have no direct ties. The Donald Trump administration has reportedly approached several countries for such arrangements despite concerns over human rights conditions in some destinations.

 

Countries including Costa Rica, El Salvador, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini and South Sudan have already accepted deportees, in some cases under multimillion-dollar agreements to detain them.