Source: The American Prospect
by Gillian Brockell
“An Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flight landed in Liberia Thursday, likely carrying immigrants with no ties to the country, marking Liberia’s entrance into the Trump administration’s network of countries taking so-called third-country nationals. Liberia announced Tuesday it would accept up to 1,200 third-country nationals from the U.S. over the next year, starting with a group of 20 people scheduled to arrive Thursday. It described the arrangement, which will include deported people from countries in Africa and the Western Hemisphere, as a ‘humanitarian’ gesture in line with its history as a refuge for formerly enslaved Black Americans. The ICE charter flight believed to be carrying the immigrants was operated by Eastern Airlines and landed in the capital city of Monrovia on Thursday after leaving the ICE detention hub in Alexandria, Louisiana, on Wednesday night, flight data shows.” (08/20/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/08/20/liberia-joins-trumps-third-country-deportation-network/