Trump Just Found Another Country Willing to Take the Criminals No One Else Wants

The murderers and rapists whose own countries slammed the door and refused to take them back.

Now Trump has a new answer for every country that says no.

He just sends them somewhere else.

Congo Joins a Growing List of Countries Doing America a Favor

The Democratic Republic of Congo announced Sunday it will begin receiving third-country deportees from the United States this month – becoming the latest African nation to take criminals off American streets when their home countries refuse to do it themselves.

The Congolese Ministry of Communications confirmed the arrangement costs Congo nothing, and gives the U.S. a place to send illegal aliens convicted of serious crimes who can't be returned to where they came from.

The deal fits a pattern Trump has been building since day one.

South Sudan. Eswatini. Ghana. Rwanda. Uganda. Cameroon. Equatorial Guinea.

Eight African nations – and now Congo – have agreed to do what Democrats said was impossible: give America a permanent destination for the worst of the worst who can't go home.

DHS has been explicit about who these people are.

The agency's own year-end recap named MS-13 commanders wanted for homicide abroad, ISIS supporters released into American communities under Biden's watch, and Tren de Aragua gang members charged with murdering women in front of their children.

These are the people going to Congo.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin put it plainly when the African deals started rolling out.

"If you come to our country illegally and break our laws, you could end up in El Salvador, Eswatini, South Sudan, or another third country," she said.

That's not a threat. That's a promise they've been keeping.

Why Congo Said Yes and What America Gets in Return

The Congo deal didn't happen in a vacuum.

In December 2025, Trump signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement with Kinshasa granting U.S. companies preferential access to Congolese cobalt and copper – the minerals that go into every defense system, every fighter jet, and every battery powering the technologies China wants to dominate.

Congo holds the world's largest cobalt reserves. Chinese companies currently control over 80% of them.

Trump is changing that.

In April 2026, a U.S. company acquired copper and cobalt mines in the DRC for $700 million. Congo's willingness to accept deportees is part of that broader relationship – a country that wants American investment, American security guarantees, and a Trump-brokered peace deal with Rwanda.

What did Congo get? American dollars, American protection, and a seat at the table with the most powerful nation on earth.

What did America get? Another country willing to hold the violent criminals Democrats spent four years putting back on your streets.

Trump Did in One Relationship What Biden Couldn't Do in Four Years

Think about what just happened here.

Biden watched Cuba, Venezuela, and Yemen refuse to issue travel documents for their own deported citizens – and did nothing.

He had no leverage because he wanted none.

Trump saw the same problem and built a solution.

He constructed a global network of removal destinations, locked in preferential access to Congolese minerals, worked to cut China out of the cobalt supply chain, brokered a Congo-Rwanda peace agreement, and secured a new country willing to take America's most violent criminal illegal aliens – all through a single strategic relationship.

While Biden was handing release papers to gang commanders and cartel killers, Trump was building the architecture that sends them to the other side of the world.

The Supreme Court cleared the way in June 2025, ruling the administration could resume deportations to third countries. Since then, DHS reports ICE removed more than 670,000 illegal aliens from American communities – including murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists.

Congo is the latest country to join a system that is working.

And every violent criminal who boards that flight to Kinshasa is one less predator in your neighborhood – courtesy of a president who actually finished the job.

Sources:

• "Congo to Receive Third-Country Deportees from the US Under New Deal," The Washington Times, April 5, 2026.
• Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Statement on Third-Country Deportations, Department of Homeland Security, July 2025.
• "DHS Recaps the Worst of the Worst Criminal Illegal Aliens ICE Took Enforcement Action on During President Trump's First Year in Office," Department of Homeland Security, January 20, 2026.
• "Making America Safe Again," Department of Homeland Security, dhs.gov, April 2026.
• "Watch: Trump Hosts Congo and Rwanda Leaders to Sign Deal on Peace, Critical Minerals for U.S.," PBS NewsHour, December 2025.
• "African War-Torn Nation Invokes Trump 'Golden Age' for Minerals Deal in Exchange for Booting Violent Rebels," Fox News, March 20, 2025.