Barely a week after taking over at the White house, U.S. President Donald Trump has deported 92 Africans on Wednesday.
According to reports, Ninety nationals of Somalia and two Kenyans arrived at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya.
The deportees reportedly arrived at the airport at midday aboard Omni, an American Charter Airline.
The Somalis then boarded a Mogadishu- bound Juba Airways flight to Somalia at 3pm.
The deportees were were accompanied by security officers from the US.
An official of Jomo Kenyatta airport, Zipporah Waweru, confirmed that there had been a plane carrying Somalis in transit to Mogadishu, but she could not confirm whether they were deportees.
“They have left and to me, they looked happy so I cannot for sure tell you that they were deported or not,” she said.
The deportees are the first set of Africans who are affected affected by the immigration policy of Donald Trump.
Trump has vowed to crack down on millions of immigrants in the US.
He had earlier revealed plans to sign executive orders which would lead to the imposition of visa ban on 7 predominantly Islam nations including three from Africa.
The countries targeted are Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.