Colombian deported to Africa by U.S. says “I had never heard of Liberia” – CBS News Watch CBS News The Trump administration ramped up its “third country” deportations last month, sending a group of migrants to the West African nation of Liberia. Camilo Montoya-Galvez traveled there to hear some of their stories. Colombian deported to […]
Monrovia, Liberia — None of the deported men and women placed in a three-story hotel in a remote, coastal area of this West African country are Liberian citizens. Many are not even from Africa. Instead, they hail from countries throughout Latin America — including Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela — as well as other […]
Guyana on Friday became the latest “third country” to accept migrants deported from the United States, a U.S. official told CBS News. The South American country received a handful of Afghan and Cuban deportees expelled by the Trump administration, the official said. Guyana is one of more than 30 nations that have now signed deals with the […]
Last year, Cuban immigrant Yasmany Moreno de Armas was working and living in Florida. He’s now in the Central African Republic, after the Trump administration sent him and dozens of deportees to the deeply impoverished and conflict-ridden nation. The 31-year-old said he only learned the U.S. government was deporting him to Africa after he arrived […]