The United States deported dozens of individuals to four African countries on Thursday and Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s expanded “third-country” deportation initiative, AFP reported, citing attorneys familiar with the cases.

The deportations, which targeted Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and the Central African Republic, have raised concerns among legal observers who note that many of those removed are not nationals of the destination nations.

Alma David and Meredyth Yoon, US immigration attorneys with knowledge of the affected cases, told AFP that approximately 10 people were deported to Equatorial Guinea on Thursday. On Friday, a flight from the United States arrived in Sierra Leone, where about 10 more individuals were taken off the aircraft, David said. The same flight is now continuing to Ghana and then to the Central African Republic, the lawyers reported.

All four countries have previously accepted African deportees from the United States, according to the attorneys. In Equatorial Guinea, some prior deportees have been stranded in a hotel for months, while Ghana left others across the border in Togo without documentation last year, the lawyers added.

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