‘Not a small issue’: People deported by US to Liberia face uncertain future
Monrovia, Liberia – Samwar Fallah began receiving calls this week from people in the United States seeking information about 20 relatives sent to Liberia, a country none of them is a citizen of. The families asked the Monrovia-based lawyer to find out where their relatives were taken and what would happen to them.
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- Fact 1: Monrovia, Liberia – Samwar Fallah began receiving calls this week from people in the United States seeking information about 20 relatives sent to Liberia, a country none of them is a citizen of.
- Fact 2: First group of US deportees, out of an expected 1,200, arrive in Liberia Liberia to take 1,200 deportees from the US Liberia’s kush crisis: The hidden trade behind a generation at risk From palava huts to TikTok: How Liberians are preserving their past He knows the group landed at Roberts International Airport near capital Monrovia on Thursday and was driven away in a bus by Liberian officials.
- Fact 3: “Imagine you coming from maybe El Salvador and then you find out you are on a plane to Liberia.” The group is the first transferred under an arrangement allowing Liberia to receive up to 1,200 people deported from the US over the next 12 months.
- Fact 4: Piah linked the decision to Liberia’s history as a settlement for free and formerly enslaved Black people from the US and a country whose citizens sought protection abroad during 14 years of civil war.
Monrovia, Liberia – Samwar Fallah began receiving calls this week from people in the United States seeking information about 20 relatives sent to Liberia, a country none of them is a citizen of. The families asked the Monrovia-based lawyer to find out where their relatives were taken and what would happen to them.
He could not tell them much. First group of US deportees, out of an expected 1,200, arrive in Liberia Liberia to take 1,200 deportees from the US Liberia’s kush crisis: The hidden trade behind a generation at risk From palava huts to TikTok: How Liberians are preserving their past He knows the group landed at Roberts International Airport near capital Monrovia on Thursday and was driven away in a bus by Liberian officials. He does not know where they were taken, whether they are free to leave, or what legal status they now hold.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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