ICE Sends More Than 100 Immigrants to 8 African Nations Under Renewed Third-Country Deportation Push

The Roberts International Airport is pictured moments before a plane carrying migrants deported from the US which was scheduled to land in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026. Twenty migrants deported from the United States arrived in Liberia on August 20, AFP journalists saw, the first of up to 1,200 foreign nationals the west African country has agreed to accept. Liberia is the latest African country to agree to take in migrants deported under US President Donald Trump's contested immigration crackdown. (Credit: Photo by Matthew Jacobs / AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump administration deported more than 100 immigrants over a 10-day period to eight African countries where they were not citizens, according to internal U.S. government documents obtained by CBS News, marking an expansion of its use of so-called third-country deportations.

Three Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights transported deportees from countries including Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Nepal, Turkey and Venezuela to Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone, CBS reported Sunday.