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00:02The Trump administration has sent its first group of so-called third-country deportees
00:07to Liberia, meaning people deported to a country that is not their own.
00:12About 20 people from different countries landed outside Liberia's capital, Monrovia, on Thursday.
00:18CBS News reports a small group refused to get off the plane
00:21and had to be escorted off by American officials.
00:25They later returned to the plane, and CBS says their whereabouts were not immediately known.
00:30Liberia has agreed to take up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S. over the next year,
00:36including people from Africa, North and South America, and the Caribbean.
00:40They will also be allowed to apply for asylum in Liberia.
00:44Liberia is also where the Trump administration is trying to send Kilmar Abrego Garcia,
00:48who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador last year,
00:51then returned to the U.S. to face human smuggling charges.
00:55A federal judge has blocked that deportation for now.
00:58In a separate immigration move Thursday, the U.S. deported more than 160 people to Haiti.
01:04They are the first group sent back since the Trump administration won its legal fight
01:08to end temporary protected status for some 350,000 Haitians.
01:13The group included people who had been protected under TPS,
01:17along with other Haitian nationals, including some who had served prison sentences.
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