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Deportees who refused to exit a US flight in Liberia are sent to Equatorial Guinea
DAKAR, Senegal | Six people who were deported by the United States to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane and instead were sent to Equatorial Guinea, another African nation that signed a third-country deporation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a lawyer in contact with the six said […]
US carries out its first deportations under pact for Liberia to accept 1,200 non-Liberians
HARBEL, Liberia | The United States on Thursday carried out its first deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country, one of the Trump administration’s largest efforts yet to deport people to countries other than their own. The 20 deportees arrived at Roberts International […]
Judge finds evidence of vindictive prosecution in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case
NASHVILLE, Tenn. | A federal judge on Friday dismissed a human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, finding that the Justice Department’s pursuit of criminal charges was designed to punish him for challenging his mistaken deportation to El Salvador last year. The ruling amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of a Justice Department that under President […]