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Washington has defended the third-country deals as lawful, although rights groups and advocates have said the details are<br \/>opaque and many of the deportees are ultimately repatriated.<br \/>The Liberian government&#8217;s statement said the deportees &#8220;will include citizens or nationals of African and Western Hemisphere countries who are medically authorized to travel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. in the next 12 months, with an initial group of 20 deportees expected to arriveon Thursday, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.Since taking office in January last year, the Trump administration has struck several deals with African countries on deporting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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