US prepares deportation flights to Libya, but rival Libyan governments reject plan

Trump administration officials told reporters this week that they’re planning to send a group of migrants to Libya aboard a US military plane. But today, Libya’s government, as well as militias that control eastern Libya, rejected the plan. Sally Hayden, the author of “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route”, speaks with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler about conditions in Libya’s vast network of migrant prisons.

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