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US Sends Deportees to Equatorial Guinea After Resistance in Liberia Under Third-Country Program

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  • Five deportees resisted deplaning in Liberia and were redirected to Equatorial Guinea, none of them citizens of either country.
  • CBS News reports that men from Cuba and other nations have been deported to the Central African Republic, where they say they are unable to leave.
  • The U.S. approved $5 million to Liberia after the country agreed only to 'consider' accepting third-country deportees, per New York Times documents.
  • More than 30 countries have now agreed to participate in the third-country deportation program under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
  • Deportees are being sent to nations they have no connection to, a departure from standard repatriation to countries of origin.

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