Trump Seeks Deal With West African Leaders on Deportations (1)

The US government asked a group of African leaders for help with efforts to deport asylum seekers, according to Liberian President Joseph Boakai.

The topic of removing undocumented immigrants from the US — a signature policy of the Trump administration — was discussed at a summit with the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal this week, Boakai said in an interview with Monrovia-based FrontPage Africa on Thursday.

Joseph Nyumah Boakai, Liberia’s president.

Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg

“What the Americans are saying is that they have asylum seekers that have been there for years, and that they’d like for those that have been causing problems to ...