First U.S. Deportees to Arrive in Liberia Amid Growing Backlash

Critics in Liberia, a small West African nation, say their government has not explained why it agreed to one of the largest U.S. deportation deals, who the deportees are, or how they will be handled. The first group of U.S. deportees was set to arrive in Liberia on Thursday, amid a growing backlash there, with critics saying the Liberian government’s deal with the Trump administration to accept 1,200 deportees is too large and too opaque. The deal with Liberia, in West Africa, is one of the largest struck by the Trump administration for so-called third-country deportations, meaning that the deportees are not being sent to their home countries. The majority of the countries making such agreements have been in Africa, including Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana and South Sudan, among others. Twenty deportees were set to arrive this week in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, according to the Liberian government.

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