Six migrants deported from the United States refused to leave a plane in Liberia last week and were instead flown to Equatorial Guinea.The group included four Cuban men, one Brazilian man and one Cameroonian woman, according to accounts from a person on the flight and a lawyer in contact with them, as reported by NBC News and The Associated Press. They arrived in Liberia Thursday as part of a third-country deportation arrangement. When the plane landed, the six refused to disembark, saying Liberia was “not their country.”
Other passengers got off because they feared officers would force them, a Honduran deportee on the flight said. The six were then separated from the rest of the group. Authorities told them they would be returned to the United States. Instead, the plane continued to Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea. They arrived there later the same day.
