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Kampala, Uganda – August 26 2025
1. Various street scenes in the Ugandan capital Kampala
2. Various of local resident, Alex Masereka Joel, walking on highway
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Masereka Joel, local resident:
"Uganda is yet to comment on the Abrego issue. There is no communication, no comment from, say, authorities on that issue, and for Abrego’s case he is still a suspect from what I have read. Unless if there is more information to indicate that he is a criminal, then Uganda and the U.S. will work out those details to ensure… I believe President Museveni will protect Uganda’s interests.”
4. Various of streets
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Masereka Joel, local resident:
“I think the U.S. should copy from other countries to be welcoming to people because Abrego is from that American hemisphere. It wouldn’t be good to bring him to say, Africa, where he has totally no connection. I was reading that he even doesn’t’, he speaks Spanish, he doesn’t speak English. So he is going to be thrown in a place where he will probably need like a translator. So the U.S. on its part should be welcoming to people in its hemisphere.”
6. Various of streets
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kennedy Asiimwe, local resident:
"Of course I am worried because some of them are criminals, some of them you don’t know what they have been doing the other side. You know people when they are starting over – you have been somewhere and you have to start again – so life gets hard, so you find yourself doing something you wouldn’t have done if you had stayed in your real life. So I am a bit worried.”
8. Wide of street in Kampala
STORYLINE:
Ugandans on Tuesday questioned an agreement with the United States to receive deported migrants, highlighting the lack of parliamentary approval and that the deal eases political pressure on the country’s authoritarian president.
Ugandan officials have released few details about the agreement, although said they preferred to receive deportees of African origin and didn’t want individuals with criminal records.
However, the country is being put forward as a possible location for high-profile detainee Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador native who has been charged with human smuggling.
Abrego Garcia, the subject of a protracted immigration saga, was detained on Monday by immigration officials in Baltimore, and the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that he “is being processed for removal to Uganda.”
Local resident Alex Masereka Joel said it didn’t make sense for Abrego Garcia to be sent to Uganda.
“He has totally no connection [to Africa]. I was reading that he speaks Spanish, he doesn’t speak English… So he is going to be thrown in a place where he will probably need like a translator," Masereka Joel added.
It remains unclear precisely what Ugandan authorities are getting in return for accepting deportees.
Uganda’s attorney-general, as well as the government ministers in charge of refugees and internal affairs, were not immediately available for comment.
Negotiators for the Ugandan side are believed to have been reporting directly to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, an authoritarian leader who has been in power in the east African country since 1986.
For much of his time in power, Museveni was widely seen as a strong U.S. ally, especially for his support of counter-terrorism operations in Somalia when he deployed troops there to fight the al-Qaida-linked rebels of al-Shabab.
But his cachet in Washington declined in recent years.
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