Ahmed Ebid, 42, masterminded a £12 million operation, in which around 3,800 migrants, including women and children, were transported to Europe from Libya on overcrowded fishing boats.
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Palestinians would reportedly be resettled from their homes in Gaza to Libya, a country that remains divided with two rival governments fighting for control.
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
Ahmed Ramadan Mohamad Ebid, who had worked as a fisherman in the Mediterranean, started helping boats make the perilous journey from Libya to Italy just three weeks after he arrived in the UK.
A fragile calm has settled over Tripoli after a sudden surge of violence this week left parts of the city in ruins, claimed civilian lives, and heightened concerns about the stability of Libya's already fragile political and security situation.
A Vietnamese man was one of 13 immigrants who sat waiting on a tarmac for hours to be deported to Libya. Then the operation got called off.
Besides El Salvador, where the United States have already sent detainees, Rwanda and Libya have records of mistreating migrant detainees.
The United Nations Mission to Libya (UNSMIL) warns that the situation in the country could 'spiral out of control'.