Liberia once offered Black Americans a new home. Decades on, it is receiving migrants the US wants out

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Liberia once offered Black Americans a new home. Decades on, it is receiving migrants the US wants out

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Liberia is experiencing an influx of migrants deported from the United States, raising questions about the country's role as a new home versus a dumping ground. This development highlights complex migration patterns between the US and West Africa.

Is Liberia an American dumping ground — or a place where a new generation of arrivals can build a new life? That’s the question Liberians are asking themselves after the first people to be deported to the West African country from the United States arrived in the capital, Monrovia. The 20 people on the flight … The post Liberia once offered Black Americans a new home. Decades on, it is receiving migrants the US wants out appeared first on Egypt Independent.

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