President
Donald Trump
attempted to dispatch unlawful migrants to
Ukraine
as part of his plan to rid the United States of unwanted criminals.
Ukraine has been
gripped by war since the Russian invasion
in February, 2022 and does not even have a working airport after they were targeted by repeated airstrikes.
But even that was not enough to deter Trump from asking the country to pitch in and help crack down on America’s ‘migrant crisis.’
According to
The Washington Post
, Trump administration officials reached out to Ukraine in late January in an effort to strike a deal over a group of illegal migrants – none of whom were citizens of Ukraine.
The administration had hoped to deport the illegal migrants to war-torn Ukraine.
While it is unclear how Ukrainian officials responded to the request, the nation has not accepted any third-party nationals from the United States.
According to the publication, there is no indication that Kyiv ever seriously considered the ajuan.
Two officials even suggested they never even took it to the highest levels of government for consideration, because it was so preposterous.
Trump and Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky have
had a strained relationship since Trump’s return to the White House.
Tensions between the pair exploded in February, when a meeting in the Oval Office between the pair descended into a shouting match as Trump threatened to abandon Ukraine completely if Zelensky did not agree to his peace terms. He also accused Zelensky of not being grateful.
Now, it’s been revealed that Ukrainian officials had rejected Trump’s migrant request just weeks before that confrontation.
But since then, they’ve been able to strike a deal which will
grant the United States preferential access to new investment opportunities aimed at developing Ukraine’s natural resources, such as aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas
.
It was signed after a weeks-long push by Trump for Ukraine to compensate Washington for billions in military and economic assistance to help Ukraine repel the Russian invasion.
It appears the Trump administration was ‘ringing around’ in order to find a country to agree to take third-party nationals.
Ultimately, officials struck a deal with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, who agreed to accept foreign criminals and
house them in his hellish CECOT prison.
As
seen in video from the Salvadoran government
, more than 130 suspected gang members who were illegally living in the United States were transported by bus to the maximum security prison, changed into the prison’s standard white T-shirts and shorts and had their heads shaven.
They were walked by guards into a cell block and some were made to kneel upon the floor with their wrists cuffed behind their backs and ankles shackled.
At the prison, the suspected gang members spend 23 and a half hours locked in overcrowded cells, with just 30 minutes to stretch – chained in the middle of the hallway.
Jail cells with steel bars are split among the eight cell blocks and can hold up to 100 detainees.
Each cell comes equipped with 80 bare iron bunks – mattresses are not included – along with two toilets and two sinks.
Dubbed a ‘black hole of human rights’ and a ‘hellhole’ by critics, the facility has drawn widespread condemnation for allegedly ignoring international prisoner rights.
Before that agreement, it is known that Trump had contemplated Costa Rica, Mexico, and Panama as potential locations for his grand project.
Trump activated the wartime Alien Enemies Act for this purpose.
aid the deportations, leading to persistent legal disputes that have reached the Supreme Court
.
He this week revealed
plans to reopen Alcatraz
to circumvent the cumbersome legal processes.
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