Liberia \u200chas agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the next 12 months, with an initial group of 20 deportees expected to arrive on Thursday, the government said in a statement on \u200bTuesday.<\/p>\n
Since taking office in January last year, the Trump administration has struck several deals \u200bwith African countries on deporting people it cannot legally send to their \u2060home countries.<\/p>\n
The deportees have in most cases obtained legal protection against repatriation after U.S. immigration \u200bjudges ruled they risked torture or other abuses in their home countries.<\/p>\n
Washington has defended the third-country \u200bdeals as lawful, although rights groups and advocates have said the details are opaque and many of the deportees are ultimately repatriated.<\/p>\n
The Liberian government’s statement said the deportees “will include citizens or nationals of African and Western Hemisphere \u200bcountries who are medically authorized to travel.”<\/p>\n
No information was immediately available on the nationalities of \u200bthe deportees. The State Department said it does not disclose such details.<\/p>\n
LIBERIA SAYS DEAL NOT ‘A QUID PRO QUO’<\/strong><\/p>\n Other African \u200ccountries \u2060including the\u00a0Democratic Republic of Congo,\u00a0Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone have also accepted third-country deportees.<\/p>\n Liberia said on Tuesday that the deportees would be received “as guests” who could leave when they wanted and who could apply for asylum in Liberia.<\/p>\n The statement said the deal \u200bdid not involve a \u200bquid pro quo with \u2060Washington and Monrovia was not demanding compensation for taking the deportees.<\/p>\n It added, however, that the government would receive “support to help manage the program and \u200bstrengthen its migration system more broadly.” It offered no further details.<\/p>\n The \u200bstatement also \u2060referenced Liberia’s history as a refuge for freed slaves from the U.S. and as a country with “a long history of accepting people seeking refuge from political and other crises.”<\/p>\n President Joseph Boakai was one \u2060of five \u200bWest African leaders who traveled to the White House \u200blast year to meet with Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Liberia \u200chas agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the next 12 months, with an initial group of 20 deportees expected to arrive on Thursday, the government said in a statement on \u200bTuesday. Since taking office in January last year, the Trump administration has struck several deals \u200bwith African countries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2377,27],"tags":[193,1134,72,1228,158,366,1770,1842],"class_list":["post-21800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-migration","category-west-africa","tag-cameroon","tag-central-african-republic","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-equatorial-guinea","tag-ghana","tag-liberia","tag-sierra-leone","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21802,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21800\/revisions\/21802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}