The Eastern European nation of Kosovo has agreed to host a small number of migrants deported from the United States.
Kosovo has reportedly agreed to take in 50 migrants over a one-year period.
“The government has expressed its readiness to participate, with the opportunity to select individuals from a proposed pool, provided they meet specific criteria related to the rule of law and public order,” the Kosovo government said in a statement on Wednesday.
A State Department spokesperson told Fox News that it is “grateful to our partner Kosovo for receiving third country nationals removed from the United States and facilitating those aliens’ safe return to their home countries.”
“We welcome cooperation on this key Trump Administration priority,” the spokesman added, though they did not answer Fox News Digital’s questions on paying Kosovo for the scheme.
Last month, the UK said it was looking to Kosovo, along with eight other nations largely from the Balkans, to open “return hubs” to host asylum seekers denied sanctuary.
Housing deportees has been a controversial topic in Kosovo long before the U.S. pushed the Balkan nation to accept its deported migrants.
Another 2022 agreement between Denmark and Kosovo saw the transfer of 300 foreign prisoners to Kosovo’s Correctional Institution in Gjilan who are expected to be deported following their sentences.
Other countries have previously reached agreements with the Trump administration to accept deported migrants, including Guatemala and El Salvador.
“We have agreed to increase by 40% the number of flights of deportees both of our nationality as well as deportees from other nationalities,” Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo said, speaking during a news conference with State Department Sec. Marco Rubio.
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The “European nation” of Kosovo is not universally recognized. Many consider it a region of Bosnia and Hercegovina.