On Aug. 20, four Cuban migrants, a Brazilian and a Cameroonian refused to disembark from a U.S. deportation flight after it landed in Monrovia, Liberia, according to The Guardian. The group was instead flown onward to Equatorial Guinea, a country with which the United States has a separate third-country deportation agreement reportedly worth $7.5 million. Lawyers say the six are now held in a former hotel in Malabo under armed guard, unable to contact their families or access adequate food, hygiene items or medical care. Some were allegedly assaulted by ICE agents before being returned to the plane; attorneys describe the case as the first known instance of the U.S. deporting people to a fourth country after they refused a third-country deportation.