KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda agreed to accept up to 250 deportees from the United States under the Trump administration’s expanding third-country deportation program , its government said Tuesday.

The U.S. is seeking more deals with African countries to take deportees under President Donald Trump’s plans to expel people who he says entered the U.S. illegally and are “the worst of the worst.”

Rwanda government spokesperson Yolande Makolo confirmed the details in an email to The Associated Press. She didn’t immediately give a timeline for the deportations.

The U.S. has already sent 13 immigrants to two other African nations , South Sudan and Eswatini. It has also deported hundreds of Venezuelans and others to Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama.

The Trump administration described

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