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Illegal US-based Nigerians abandon work, staying indoors to avoid Trump’s deportation Amid growing concerns over U.S. immigration policies, many Nigerian illegal immigrants in the United States have revealed that they have drastically reduced their movements to avoid the threat of arrest and deportation. Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President, they have taken steps to minimize their public presence, with some even stopping work and avoiding places like churches and social gatherings, out of fear of being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Immigration Policies and Deportation Orders According to a document compiled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Removal Operations, around 3,690 Nigerians in the U.S. are facing deportation. The document, titled  Non-citizens on the ICE Non-Detained Docket with Final Orders of Removal by Country of Citizenship , lists Mexico and El Salvador as the countries with the highest numbers ...

Colombia offers to pay for citizens’ deportation from US Colombia has offered to pay for the “dignified” deportation of its citizens from the United States, the foreign ministry said Friday, a week after a public spat between presidents Gustavo Petro and Donald Trump over the removal of migrants. The two leaders had issued threats and counter threats of major trade tariffs of up to 50 percent, and Washington’s embassy in Bogota stopped issuing visas from Monday to Friday in retaliation for Petro’s refusal to allow US military planes to return Colombian migrants to their country. Petro had accused the United States of treating the migrants like criminals, placing them in shackles and handcuffs. Colombia’s foreign ministry said Friday it had proposed to Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump’s special envoy for Latin America, that Bogota would “immediately assume the transfer of all citizens deported by the United States,” covering transportation costs for its nationals, according to a statement....

Gunshots as Fubara, Wike supporters clash at PDP Secretariat PORT HARCOURT:  Supporters of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, believed to be loyalists of the Governor of Rivers State, Sir Siminialayi Fubara, and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, yesterday clashed at the Secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt. The development resulted in shootings around the PDP Secretariat on Port Harcourt -Aba Expressway, Friday. While some people believed that the gunshots were fired by security operatives, who have been keeping watch over the facility after the sacking of the Aaron Chukwuemeka’s executives of the party by the court, others said political thugs were behind the shooting. It was gathered that supporters of the governor of the state who have been chased out of the office by security men after the court victory attempted to re-take the office, Friday morning, when another group said be loyalists of the former governor stormed the area. It was gathered ...