Liberia Accepts U.S. Deportees

Liberia received about 20 U.S. deportees on Thursday, its first flight under an agreement to accept up to 1,200 third-country migrants over the next year. The group consisted mostly of Latin American nationals, including people from Venezuela, Cuba and Colombia, sent to a country that was not their own. Five deportees who resisted leaving the aircraft in Monrovia were later flown by U.S. officials to Equatorial Guinea. Internal documents show the Trump administration approved a $5 million payment to Liberia in connection with the arrangement.