A senior Ugandan official has denied media reports saying that the country had agreed to take in people deported from the United States, saying it lacked the facilities to accommodate them.

Citing internal US government documents, CBS News reported on Tuesday that Washington had reached deportation deals with Uganda and Honduras as part of its drive to step up expulsions of migrants to countries where they do not have citizenship.

“To the best of my knowledge, we have not reached such an agreement,” the minister told Anadolu.

“We do not have the capacity to accommodate such foreign deportees from the United States in Uganda,” he added.

US President Donald Trump aims to deport millions of immigrants who the administration says have entered the US illegally, and sought to increase remova

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