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Trump Admin Also Seeking To Send Deported Migrants To War-Torn Libya: Report

A military plane used to carry out a deportation flight (Credit: Press Secretary)

The Trump administration could soon start sending migrant deportees to Libya, a country engulfed in armed violence and political turmoil for over a decade.

Quoting officials familiar with the matter, CBS News detailed that deportations could start as soon as next week. If deportation flights are effectively carried out, third-country deportees would find themselves in a country divided into two factions since a civil war broke out in 2011: one ruled by a UN-backed government in Tripoli and another one by strongman General Khalifa Haftar, who controls the eastern half of the country and some enclaves in the west.

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