The U.S. sent eight men from South Sudan, Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan in East Africa in early July after their deportations were held up by a legal challenge. That led to them being kept for weeks in a converted shipping container at an American military base in nearby Djibouti.

Rwanda has agreed to accept up to 250 deportees from the United States under the Trump administration's third-country deportation program

The African nation of Rwanda has agreed to receive U.S. deportees from third countries, adding another country to the list of those taking migrants removed by the Trump administration as it expands its crackdown.