Uganda has agreed to take in people from other countries who cannot get asylum in the United States but are also unwilling to return to their home nations, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Thursday, August 21.

President Donald Trump has targeted millions of immigrants in the U.S. for deportation and is looking for other countries willing to accept them. Some convicted criminals have already been sent to nations like South Sudan and Eswatini.

Vincent Bagiire Waiswa, the permanent secretary of Uganda’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, said the deal is temporary and that people with criminal records or unaccompanied minors will not be accepted.

Uganda would prefer to receive migrants from African countries under this agreement. Both Uganda and the U.S. are still finalizing the details of how the deal will work.

Just a day before the announcement, another Ugandan official denied U.S. media reports claiming the country had agreed to take in deportees, saying Uganda did not have the facilities to handle them.

Uganda, a close U.S. ally in East Africa, already hosts nearly two million refugees, mostly from neighboring countries like South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan.

In July, five people from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Yemen, and Cuba, convicted of serious crimes, were sent to Eswatini and are now in high-security prisons. Local NGOs are challenging this in court.

Also in July, eight men were deported from the U.S. to South Sudan via Djibouti and were kept for weeks in a shipping container. Earlier, over 250 Venezuelans were sent back to Venezuela after being held in a prison in El Salvador without proper legal process.