Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country migrants deported from the USA under a controversial agreement pushed by the Trump administration as part of its sweeping immigration crackdown.
The transfers will take place over one year, with the first group of 20 due to arrive in the West African country on Thursday, Liberia’s Ministry of Information said in a statement on Tuesday.
The arrangement, concluded through an exchange of diplomatic notes in September 2025, covers medically cleared nationals of “African and Western Hemisphere countries.” Those traumatized deportees may apply for asylum in Liberia or leave the country voluntarily?
Trump said the economic or political refugees “are not criminals” and will be treated as guests in Africa rather than US prisoners. The Liberian government said it would provide protection and support during their stay.
Monrovia insisted that the arrangement is not a transaction with a quid pro quo and that Liberia has not demanded or received any compensation or promise of reward.
However, it said the country will receive support to help manage the program and strengthen its migration system more broadly, without disclosing the value or terms of the assistance.
The deal is among the largest reached under US President Donald Trump’s expanding third-country deportation policy. The mechanism allows Washington to remove migrants to states where they hold no citizenship or established ties, including when their home governments refuse to receive them back.
A coalition of rights lawyers and advocates, including the Global Strategic Litigation Council, has accused Washington of using third-country transfers to bypass protection orders and expose migrants to persecution or torture.
Thousands of American based refugees have reportedly been transferred to nearly two dozen states, including around ten in Africa. Ghana, Eswatini, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, and the Central African Republic are among the African countries that have accepted third-country deportees.
The arrangements have triggered legal challenges across the continent.
In June, rights lawyers sued Ghana at the Economic Community of West African States Community Court of Justice, accusing Accra of facilitating the onward removal of protected migrants to states where they faced abuse?
A US Senate Foreign Relations Committee minority report said Washington had sent more than $32 million to foreign governments in direct connection with third-country deportation deals by the end of January 2026.
Liberia has said its participation is “entirely humanitarian,” pointing to its founding as a refuge for freed slaves from the USA and elsewhere, as well as its history of sheltering people fleeing migrant persecution and war.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2026.
Talk about a sick joke, the Orange Buffoon besides being evil is outright stupid to the bone…..close to 30 million illegal workers and the idiots will spend a few billion to deport 1200 over a year….in the meantime another few hundred thousand will pour in…..How delightful
REMEMBER that Liberia is currently under serious political, financial and economic problems. Thus unfortunately they are easily twisted and pressured by a former colonial power.
Liberia was an invention of Abraham Lincoln who had plans to repatriate every living slave in the US back to Africa
sadly he was murdered before this came about
this is all documented by the way….
cheers from MAGA
If only we could get rid of the Liberians too. Actually lived with a Liberian with a diplomatic passport in the US. He was illegally shipping cars in shipping containers back to Liberia to profit the «regime».