According to a new report, Nigeria’s illegal immigrants are hiding and restricting their movements to avoid being arrested and deported by the Donald Trump administration.
A document from US immigrants and customs law enforcement and evacuation agencies shows that about 3,690 Nigerians in the United States live in the United States illegally and are facing deportation.
The title of the document is “non -citizen on the case of non -wills on the ice, which is eventually removed by citizenship”, showing that the highest hit rate of Mexico and Salvador is the national list with the highest exit, respectively, 252,044 and 203,822, respectively.
As revealed in this document, as of November 24, 2024, 1,445,549 non -citizens were eventually evacuated in the non -case of ICE.
The government led by Trump quickly began the anti -criminal law immigration policy after the inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2025. Therefore, on January 23, 538 illegal immigrants were expelled from the United States.
In addition, the US Department of Justice also threatened the local and state authorities that did not comply with immigration instructions.
Nevertheless, Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed in her official X processing that the largest deportation operation in history is in progress.
Nigerians in Florida punchDue to worry, many illegal immigrants of African descent, especially Nigerians, have stopped trying to avoid being arrested by ice media.
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He said: “Since Trump came to power and adopted the threat of deportation, some of us stopped going to work, because the ice officer could attack the workshop at any time and arrested illegal immigrants.” He continued to describe how his social life was Affected by far-reaching: “I no longer go to the church, because it may be arrested there. At present, the only place to be safe is your house-indoor.transparent
In Tampa, the factory he worked hired many Nigerians and Africans, and some of them stopped working because they were worried about being expelled from the country. HWow, he is optimistic that he will relax and expel exits in a few months
“The fear of Trump is now the beginning of wisdom. ”
“We survived in Obama’s deportation; we will also be spared here. We hope that various lawsuits against immigration policy will slow down the speed and eventually suppress Trump to withdraw it out.”
When asked why he had not had a formalized document, he said that all his efforts he stayed in the United States was futile. According to him, he tried to obtain all systems that obtained effective residence documents to him, which lost nearly $ 30,000 in the process.
He said: “I left Nigeria to the United States in 2013, and I have been working hard to obtain papers since then. I was deceived because of marriage and other means. In this formalization process, I lost nearly $ 30,000. At some point, I was some time. I want to apply for asylum, but I suggest that I oppose it because I spent more than three years without effective papers.
An illegal immigrant in Nigeria in Ohio said he stopped working in the first week after Trump was worried about being deported.
According to him, although Nigerians are not the main goal of large -scale deportation, any foreign nation who illegally live in the United States can be arrested and deported by ice hockey players at any time.
“I can’t think that the Nigerians are not their goals now, but they are exposed to their goals. No. The best self -defense is to avoid trouble and the best way to avoid being deported.
“The fact is that Trump’s war on illegal immigrants has limited our movements. People pay attention to where they go now. The situation is like a mouse monitoring the existence of cats before going out. As far as I personally, I no longer last week Trump has worked, and I have never been working regularly.
“Back to Nigeria is not a choice-when millions of Nigerians try to try Jama Because of hardship and insecurity. My difficult living conditions here are still better than Nigeria’s “comfortable” life. However, we hope that this threat will disappear in the next few months. “He said.
At the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria stated that a total of 201 Nigerians were detained by the US authorities and prepared to deport.
The agent spokesman Kimiebi Ebienfa said that he would expel Nigerians and the established diplomatic practice was officially conveyed to the Nigerian Embassy (DC).
“At present, the total number of Nigerians in 201 is expelled from the country, but the date and time of the deportation of the country has not been conveyed.
The official said, “If there is no communication with the Embassy of the Washington Special Administrative Region, they will never be expelled to Nigeria.”
