More than 90 Somalis and Kenyans have landed at the JKIA in Nairobi after being deported from the United States.
Reports indicated 95 Somali men and two Kenyan women were deported via Omnia international plane at 11am.
A security officer at the ariport said they were then flown to Mogadishu via Juba Airways.
The officer said American security officers who accompanied the men said the deportation was as a result of President Donald Trump’s policy.
An estimated 30,000 Kenyan illegal immigrants are now at imminent risk of being deported from the USA back to Kenya.
There are around 11 million illegal immigrants in the USA who Trump threatened to deport while he was on the campaign trail.
Many illegals were hoping that he would tone down after winning the election but it is now clear that Trump will not backtrack on his hardline immigration policy.
Trump, who voiced his opposition for America’s immigration policy, said the US is “the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own.”
But former President Barack Obama said his plan for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants was unrealistic.
“The notion that we’re gonna deport 11, 12 million people from this country – first of all, I have no idea where Trump thinks the money’s gonna come from. It would cost us hundreds of billions of dollars to execute that,” Obama said in a White House interview with ABC News, according to excerpts released by the network.
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The Star report on the deportation of the 95 Somalis and two Kenyan women stated: “A security officer at the ariport [sic.] [airport] said they were then flown to Mogadishu via Juba Airways.” Juba Airways, really!?
My question and perhaps the question of Kenyan authorities should be: Why are the Kenyan citizens (women) being flown to Somalia when they are Kenyan citizens?
The only reason I could imagine would be that perhaps the two women are married to Somali citizen(s) or are Somali-Kenyan refugees who were able to obtain Kenyan documents before gaining refugee status or marriage to Somalis were who able to migrate to America without status.
Obviously, there is a big difference between Kenya and Somalia (since until recently Somalia was a failed state). But the two Kenyan women belong to Kenya, not Somalia, so I would be surprised Somalia would accept them unless and only unless they were married to Somali men (and there was some sort of proof of this).
If that is the case, then effectively, they would be considered part of a Somali family. Interesting thought though if the Somalis came as refugees to the United States under a refugee program and some Kenyan women married them before they were imported under the program, thereby also gaining (through marriage) refugee status. Well it would have been a free ride to the United States, but evidently the free ride works both ways–free ride there and free ride back home. Seems like the American people (taxpayers) will be giving an awful lot of free rides, but for Kenyans, they would be getting a free ride to go home to paradise–just not in time for the holidays now that they are past, but perhaps in time to get out of the snow and winter storms of January and February in the Northern USA. But I feel for Kenyans who are out of status in Florida since that would be leaving paradise in the USA to paradise in Kenya. But at least from paradise to paradise–but not where it comes to jobs I suppose. All this to say that effectively (unless the Kenyan women got off the plane and stayed in Kenya), these deportees were all Somalis (or Somali families) but I truly do feel bad they had to go back to Mogadishu if they were refugees.
Let God help Trump with wisdom
President Trump should apply some diplomatic ways.Some of the people left their countries centuries ago.The best way is to involve state presidents to find out how to settle the depotees. I empathise with them.Where will they start from?
I still would like to know how the Star reporter(s) know how many illegal Kenyans are in the United States. Where did this figure come from? How did your reporter(s) estimate this and from what statistical report? I am sure the U.S. Govt. is very happy you are supplying information about the number of illegals from each country (at least from Kenya). But I have a tip: In the U.S. refugee centers in the Northwest, paralegals from other countries (who were not U.S. citizens themselves but who were studying law in U.S. Law schools) are currently (at this moment) helping refugees and others get status and services. Now, this is all in the matter of humanitarian assistance, which is great (and I am sure some of it was supported by faith-based organizations, which is even better), but it is a little more than shocking that the people helping them are lawyers from other countries and are not U.S. citizens themselves–we are talking about getting status to be a citizen being aided by those who are not citizens themselves. If they are ICRC, then there is no problem of course since that is their agreed right to objectively help all (but since we are not in a war zone–at least yet) I doubt that they are ICRC. I am all for humanitarian assistance when you bring people into a place where they cannot work or provide for themselves and their families, but most of the time, the assistance is also of the nature of bringing in other family members who may or not be documented as such. Because of this neighborhoods are being creating in the Northwest and other states such as Kansas and other states that are like the neighborhoods in France and Germany and yes, even Kenya, which are factionally off-limits even to law enforcement because they are afraid, not of crime, but of stepping on what has been earmarked as ‘sacred and secret territory’ for the festering of factions.