{"id":190169,"date":"2025-01-31T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-foreign-minister-says-government-engaging-u-s-taking-proactive-steps-to-avert-deportations\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T12:08:45","slug":"liberia-foreign-minister-says-government-engaging-u-s-taking-proactive-steps-to-avert-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-foreign-minister-says-government-engaging-u-s-taking-proactive-steps-to-avert-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Foreign Minister Says Government Engaging U.S., Taking Proactive Steps to Avert Deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberian government has broken its silence on reports that the United States plans to deport over 1,500 Liberians living in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Earlier this week, reports emerged that the U.S. government is set to deport 1,563 Liberians as part of a broader crackdown on illegal immigration under the Trump administration. The deportation is part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)&#8217;s efforts to enforce stricter immigration policies targeting undocumented&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501310251.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Liberian government has broken its silence on reports that the United States plans to deport over 1,500 Liberians living in the country illegally. Earlier this week, reports emerged that the U.S. government is set to deport 1,563 Liberians as part of a broader crackdown on illegal immigration under the Trump administration. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,13451,27541,12199,5169,6427,4712,1107,5941,257,19471,254,9150,2282],"class_list":["post-190169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-avert","tag-deportations","tag-engaging","tag-foreign","tag-government","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-proactive","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}