South Africa wants to bill Nigeria for deporting our people

South Africa just announced they will start charging foreign governments for deportation costs of their nationals who violate immigration laws. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation said they will bill countries for foreign nationals in their criminal detention facilities who have to be deported back. Over 100,000 undocumented migrants have been deported in the last two years alone.

This comes after the first batch of 258 Nigerians evacuated from South Africa arrived in Lagos recently, and Ghana evacuated about 1,000 of their citizens. President Cyril Ramaphosa said government agencies will intensify efforts to identify and deport undocumented foreign nationals. The department said, "Moving forward, we will also be billing countries for their foreign nationals who have to be deported."

So now instead of just deporting our people, they want to send us the bill too. How do we even respond to this as a country? Are we going to pay or just ignore it until the next evacuation exercise?