US Has Sent Deportees to a Dozen African Countries. Here’s Why

Twenty migrants deported from the United States arrived in Liberia, the first of 1,200 expected under a new deal. Nearly half of the Trump administration's third-country deportation agreements are with African nations, and later flights have included asylum-seekers with U.S. court protection, among them a gay Moroccan woman sent to Cameroon, where homosexuality is illegal.