{"id":233928,"date":"2026-05-21T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-receives-first-batch-of-u-s-migrant-deportees\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:19:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:19:50","slug":"sierra-leone-receives-first-batch-of-u-s-migrant-deportees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-receives-first-batch-of-u-s-migrant-deportees\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Receives First Batch of U.S. Migrant Deportees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Sierra Leone has become the latest African nation to <a class=\"external external-icon\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn9pzjvly53o\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cn9pzjvly53o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">receive migrants<\/a> deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s crackdown on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A chartered plane carrying nine West African migrants landed near Freetown. The group included citizens from five countries: Ghana, two from Guinea, and one each from Nigeria and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Foreign Minister Timothy Musa Kabba said that the country had agreed to accept up to 300 people a year expelled by the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605210059.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone has become the latest African nation to receive migrants deported from the United States as part of President Donald Trump&#8217;s crackdown on illegal immigration. A chartered plane carrying nine West African migrants landed near Freetown. The group included citizens from five countries: Ghana, two from Guinea, and one each from Nigeria and Senegal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681504:ca326344223b62f1580a582443301502:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7247,18291,6572,4729,257,6578,6571,1135,254,2282],"class_list":["post-233928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-batch","tag-deportees","tag-leone","tag-migrant","tag-news","tag-receives","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681504:ca326344223b62f1580a582443301502:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233928","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=233928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}