The Eastern European nation of Kosovo has agreed to host up to 50 migrants deported from the U.S. over a one-year period, reports confirmed on Wednesday.

The decision comes as the U.S. has increasingly pushed third-party nations to host deportees amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation promises.

“The government has expressed its readiness to participate, with the opportunity to select individuals from a proposed pool, provided they meet specific criteria related to the rule of law and public order,” the Kosovo government said in a statement on Wednesday, according to Reuters. 

Seventeen members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang and members of the MS-13 gang, who were deported to El Salvador by the U.S., arrive in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 31. (El Salvador Press Presidency Office/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Housing deportees has been a controversial topic in Kosovo long before the U.S. pushed the Balkan nation to accept its deported migrants.

Last month, the UK said it was looking to Kosovo, along with eight other nations largely from the Balkans, to open “return hubs” to host asylum seekers denied sanctuary.

The scheme is part of a broader attempt to staunch illegal migration to Britain. 

Three hundred Danish convicts will be transferred to a prison in Pasjan, southeastern Kosovo, to serve the remainder of their sentences. In exchange, Denmark will pay Kosovo around 200 million euros, with the first transfers of prisoners from Denmark set to begin in April 2027.  (Armend Nimani/AFP via Getty Images)

Another 2022 agreement between Denmark and Kosovo saw the transfer of 300 foreign prisoners to Kosovo’s Correctional Institution in Gjilan who are expected to be deported following their sentences. 

The agreement is set to bring Kosovo $217 million.