Liberia to receive about 1,200 US deportees

Liberia said Tuesday it would receive up to 1,200 foreign nationals deported from the United States, as President Donald Trump pursues an unprecedented immigration crackdown.
The Trump administration has launched a sweeping expansion to deportations where the government has argued it can send people to a country that is not their home nation.
“Liberia intends to accept up to 1,200 persons to be transferred from the United States of America within a year,” the Liberian government said in a statement.
A first group of 20 deportees would arrive Thursday in the West African nation, it said, adding that they were “free to depart the country when they so desire” or apply for asylum.
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