Along a remote stretch of West African coastline, a group of Latin American migrants find themselves stranded in a country they had never heard of, deported there by U.S. immigration authorities as part of an expanding strategy to send removable individuals to nations with which they have no connection. Most had won legal protections in American courts against return to their home countries, yet those protections proved insufficient to shield them from removal to Liberia — a nation founded by freed American slaves, now asked to receive the displaced of another hemisphere. Their predicament rai
Trump administration deports Latin American migrants to Liberia, leaving them stranded
Deportees are separated from spouses and children in the U.S., with some facing potential persecution if returned to their home countries; a 21-year-old woman and others are stranded in a foreign country without work authorization or permanent status.