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Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
Six migrants deported from the United States refused to leave a plane in Liberia and were instead flown to Equatorial Guinea.
Liberia's former vice president has been sent to prison to await trial on drug trafficking and other charges.
Six people deported by the U.S. to Liberia last week resisted getting off the plane. Instead, they were sent to Equatorial Guinea, according to a person on the plane and a lawyer.
Liberia's government announced the move on Tuesday, two days before the flight. Politicians say they were not consulted.
The Trump administration approved the payment after Liberia said it would consider taking migrants from other countries.
Five of the people flown to Liberia under the Trump administration's third-country deportation program resisted leaving the plane. They were then flown to Equatorial Guinea.
Liberia has agreed to take in 1,200 foreign nationals from the US ...
The West African nation of Liberia received the first group of "third country" deportees from the U.S. on Thursday, including migrants from Latin America, U.S. officials told CBS News.