Trump's Congo Deal

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

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.

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.

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