At least five people who were deported by the United States to Liberia but resisted getting off the plane were flown to Equatorial Guinea on Thursday, according to a U.S. official and lawyers familiar with their cases.
A first group of 20 U.S. deportees was flown to Liberia on Thursday, but only 15 remained in the West African country: In an inauspicious start to the Trump administration plan, five refused to debark; they were flown to Equatorial Guinea and forced out there.
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 deportation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a lawy…
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 deportation agreement with the Trump administration, a person on the plane and a law…
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