First US deportees arrive in Liberia under controversial third-country deal | Africanews
Twenty migrants deported from the United States have arrived in Liberia, the first group of up to 1,200 people the West African country says it will receive under a new agreement.
https://www.africanews.com/2026/08/21/first-us-deportees-arrive-in-liberia-under-controversial-third-country-deal/Open linkView original on piefed.ca
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This just not human trafficking?
Is Liberia supposed to move them onto their country of origin? Or are they just going to be slaves and encampment?
Edit after reading the article.... It seems like the planets to simply shift the responsibility onto Liberia, in return for... Well it doesn't say
This IS kidnapping/abduction and human trafficking. It is illegal in the US, internationally.
https://www.justice.gov/humantrafficking
https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF11942/IF11942.6.pdf
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/protocol.html
https://www.ohchr.org/en/trafficking-in-persons