{"id":246463,"date":"2026-10-06T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-migrant-flights-to-liberia-evoke-troubling-history-of-sending-people-deemed-unwanted-to-the-west-african-nation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:30:08","slug":"liberia-u-s-migrant-flights-to-liberia-evoke-troubling-history-of-sending-people-deemed-unwanted-to-the-west-african-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-migrant-flights-to-liberia-evoke-troubling-history-of-sending-people-deemed-unwanted-to-the-west-african-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: U.S. Migrant Flights to Liberia Evoke Troubling History of Sending People Deemed Unwanted to the West African Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/29\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-deportations-third-country.html?searchResultPosition=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision<\/a> to temporarily allow the United States to resume deporting migrants to third-country destinations could see the resumption of flights to Liberia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">About the size of Ohio, the West African country is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/us-has-deported-25000-third-countries-under-secretive-deals-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one of 35 countries<\/a> the Trump administration is paying to shelter and feed Latin Americans and others living in the U.S. without proper legal status. Some of those receiving nations have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/9\/29\/us-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-continue-third-country-deportations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reputation for corruption and human rights abuses<\/a>, and in most cases, those&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610060005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision to temporarily allow the United States to resume deporting migrants to third-country destinations could see the resumption of flights to Liberia. About the size of Ohio, the West African country is one of 35 countries the Trump administration is paying to shelter and feed Latin Americans and others living in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246464,"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\/00690204:214dea2a49aadd07a88b3fcea9f722cf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4380,15080,36333,6969,7099,4712,1107,4729,10970,257,6321,8457,254,40005,2282,18543,4375],"class_list":["post-246463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-deemed","tag-evoke","tag-flights","tag-history","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-migrant","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-people","tag-sending","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troubling","tag-u-s","tag-unwanted","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690204:214dea2a49aadd07a88b3fcea9f722cf:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246463","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=246463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}