"According to the Liberian government, the decision to welcome Abrego Garcia, who was unlawfully deported from the United States in March only to return under a court injunction in June, follows its longstanding tradition of offering refuge to those in need. Liberia was once a semi-autonomous territory funded in part by the Washington, DC-based American Colonisation Society (ACS) comprising powerful white men who viewed free Blacks as a threat to slavery and saw emigration (deportation) as the only solution to dispose of them."
"The free and formerly enslaved Blacks who founded Liberia were not unlike Abrego Garcia, who has become an international symbol of the dangers of presidential overreach. They, too, were pawns in white America's bid to make America white again as if it ever were just white through the framing of Black and brown bodies as undesirable, threatening and therefore disposable."
Monrovia offered to temporarily host Salvadoran Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia on humanitarian grounds if he were deported by the Trump administration for a second time. Abrego Garcia was unlawfully deported from the United States in March and returned under a court injunction in June. Liberia's founding involved free and formerly enslaved Blacks and recaptives who settled the coast after initial backing from the American Colonization Society. The ACS viewed free Blacks as a threat to slavery and promoted emigration as a solution. The ACS deportationist sensibility echoes contemporary anti-migrant racism, but early Black settlers chose relocation primarily of their own volition.
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