5 Deportees Are Flown by US to Equatorial Guinea After they Resist Deplaning in Liberia

The New York Times·August 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM+2

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At least 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.

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