The Trump administration deported the first wave of 85 Nigerian immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally on Monday, prompting the country’s foreign affairs minister to ask for a “more humane process” to the repatriations.

U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Richard Mills Jr. told reporters that among the first to be sent back were “convicted prisoners — those who committed crimes and are in U.S. prisons.”

“They appealed but were denied yet they are still in the U.S. They have committed immigration crimes, people who have been ordered to leave,” Mills said.

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