U.S. sends 20 deportees to Liberia under new deal

newsAug 20, 202633137

The United States flew 20 deportees to Liberia on Thursday, landing at Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia, as the opening tranche of a new agreement under which Liberia will receive up to 1,200 migrants. Liberian Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah said the 1,200 will include African nationals and nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean. Liberian Justice Minister Natu Oswald Tweh told a briefing that most of the arrivals committed migration-related violations or offenses and that they could seek asylum in Liberia if they wished. AP called the Liberia-U.S. arrangement one of the largest third-country deportation deals driven by the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. Immigration lawyers and advocates say the administration has used a series of often-secret third-country agreements to deport thousands of people to countries that are not their own, with about 10 such partner countries in Africa, and that this practice can push asylum-seekers back toward the dangers they fled.

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@crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social

The irony isn't lost here. Liberia was created because 19th-century slave owners were terrified free Black citizens would disrupt their system, so they "volunteered" them onto ships. Now, 200 years later, the U.S. is still using the country as a dumping ground for deportees. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Blues

5521h ago

🦋 Betsy 1776 🦋 📎2

Ugh 😩 I can’t wait until we get our country back. I’m so tired of this administration.

@debbie1561

Are these deportees from Liberia? No?! wtf are we deporting people to any other country other than to their own?!

The Associated Press

@apnews.com

The U.S. has sent 20 deportees to Liberia as part of 1,200 migrants that the African country will receive under a new deal.

372h ago

rslott.bsky.social8

With a new administration, we need to find out who the US individuals are who have brokered these deals, and put them on trial and send them to prison.

Spyker7

Did those deportees get any due process before this happened?

David M6

What happens to them when they arrive, are they locked up in that Countries prison system & forgotten about. How much is the US Government paying these Governments to take the people the USA is trafficking. WTF is the World putting up with this bullshit. The USA is a mass human trafficking state.

Cranky Masshole4

The cruelty, hidden from the American people, is inhumane. Trump, Miller & Homan deserve the same treatment!

sgàthachín3

The slave trade is alive and well it seems.

Travelling Canuck (part owner of Canada) 🍁 🇨🇦3

Does anyone see the irony in this?? FFS

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MB4

These are third-country deportations and trump pays these countries to take them. While Liberia isn’t imprisoning people, some countries are being paid to do so. Immigrants are often sent without ID, their phones, wallets, everything. They end up trapped. They’ve tried doing this to young kids too.

Drop Site

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⚡️Drop Site Daily | August 19, 2026 Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 17 Palestinians; Tuesday’s primary results; Liberia to take 1,200 deportees from the U.S. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-gaz...

1620h ago

Lee West

@whodat35.bsky.social

Liberia agrees to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from US .| Reuters www.reuters.com/world/africa...

821h ago

Lee West9

One day, the history books will write about how cruel this regime really is. The Eighth Amendment protects citizens and non-citizens alike from cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court are sadists who paved the way for this… www.amnestyusa.org/blog/third-c...

Lee West6

And the safety issues of being shackled to their seats on long international flights or during refueling stops — this is cruelty. ICE deportation flights surge at Boeing Field, watchdog group says safety rules continually ignored: www.dailyuw.com/article/et56...

David Esdale1

Trump and company have the full force of the us to apply as they like, no push back from congress. Makes me sick

The Bishop 🇬🇧🇪🇺

@fritzbischoff.bsky.social

Venezuelans and Cubans among deportees to Liberia under Trump deal, official says ➡️ In any civilised Western country that would appear to be unlawful detention, kidnapping and abduction. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

43h ago

Yael Schacher

@yaelschacher.bsky.social

Hospitality for people determined to be REFUGEES (face persecution in their home countries) and forcibly removed to a county across the world they don’t know. To be “guests.” It’s like the “gift” of religion for an atheist! Only way of framing it! www.reuters.com/world/africa...

34h ago

Liz Loveland

@lizlgenealogy.bsky.social

“Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States in the next 12 months, the government said this week. It said that the first group of 20 were expected to arrive on Thursday.”

120h ago

Emory Like Memory

@emorymemory.bsky.social

The US govt is trying to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, a country that has, for reason unknown, agreed to accept 1,200 deportees from the US, one of 30+ countries making such agreements during Trump 2 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...

412h ago

Graphic Granola

@graphicgranola.bsky.social

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 foreigners deported from the US over the next year This is not just ethically and morally wrong, but patently illegal. This policy is unlawful, as it violates the due process guarantees that people are entitled to before removal.

222h ago

Flingjore

@flingjore.com

New third-country deportation agreement sends 20 US migrants to Liberia. The West African nation expects to receive 1,200 individuals as the Trump administration utilizes controversial international deals as a legal loophole to deny domestic safe harbor for global asylum seekers.

11h ago

a-nimo.bsky.social

@a-nimo.bsky.social

Liberia is getting paid to take detainees. America exports trash and its detainees. Other Countries just swallow. apnews.com/article/libe...

118h ago

Miss B aka Roberta K

@therockbabe.bsky.social

Because everyone is dying to go to Liberia.. 🙄🙄 apnews.com/article/libe...

2h ago

Charlotte Scot

@charlottescot.bsky.social

apnews.com/article/libe... How much did we pay Liberia to send these people (who never had a trial) to this country?

1h ago

News 📰

@some-news.bsky.social

The 1,200 deportees will include Africans as well as nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean, with the first batch of 20 expected on Thursday.

12h ago

muzzypat.bsky.social

@muzzypat.bsky.social

I heard they were getting ready to take a huge number of deportees to Liberia. Why is Congress still allowing this and why is Liberia accepting these folks. Wrong all around.

12h ago

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