Sixty Somali nationals who were deported from United States are stranded at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.
The government of United States restarted the operations to expel thousands of illegal migrants from its country.
Kenyan officials who confirmed the deportation said a private plane carrying 114 Africans including 60 Somali nationals, 20 Kenyans and 24 South Sudanese nationals touched down at Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Friday.
“The deportees arrive aboard an Omni International Airlines which landed at JKIA and the migrants were received at the airport by IOM and Kenyan Immigration officials,” said a Kenyan police officer who spoke to Kenyan Media.
The sixty Somali nationals remained at airport for more than 15 hours waiting to proceed to Mogadishu while the South Sudanese left in Jubba Airlines.
The Somalis are expected to board a flight to Somali capital in the forthcoming hours.
According to US authorities, Trump administration expelled a total of 2,134 people who origin from Sub-Saharan countries.
Last year alone, U.S. Deported 521 Somalis under the framework of illegal immigrants deportation operations, compared to 198 individuals in 2016.
The deportees have been affected by U.S. Donald Trump’s implementation of his pledge to crackdown on illegal immigrants.
During his presidential campaign in 2016, Trump vowed to make U.S. free from illegal immigrants.
U.S government had banned nationals from Somalia, Iran, Libya, Syria, Chad and Yemen.
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