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