The United States may deport immigrants to Libya For the first time this week, three US officials said on Tuesday, despite Washington’s conviction in the past for its practices in the human rights and harsh treatment of prisoners.

As the Reuterstwo of the officials said the US military could air immigrants to the North African country by Wednesday, but stressed that plans may change.

It is not known how many immigrants will be sent to Libya or the nationalities of people that US President Donald Trump’s government is considering expulsion.

In his annual report on human rights published last year, the US Foreign Ministry criticized the ‘Hard and life -threatening conditions of detention’ and ‘Arbitrary arrests or reservations’ in Libya.

Trump, a Republican, took over his duties in January, committing to deporting millions of people. By Monday, the Trump government has deported 152,000 people, According to DHS.

The Trump government has tried to encourage immigrants to leave voluntarily by threatening high fines, trying to remove the legal status and deporting immigrants to infamous prisons In the Guantanamo Gulf and in El Salvador.

US Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, He said last week that the United States is not only satisfied with the mission of immigrants to El Salvador.

“We work with other countries to say: We want to send you some of the most desirable people, you will do this to us as a favor.”Rubio said at a cabinet meeting at the White House last Wednesday.

“And the farther away from America, the better.”

A fourth US official said the government examines a series of countries to send immigrants, including Libyafor several weeks.

It was not immediately clear whether the government had concluded an agreement with the Libyan authorities to accept other nationalities.

On April 19, the judges of the Supreme Court temporarily banned the Trump government from deporting a group of Venezuelan immigrantswho accused them of being gang members. The Trump government, which has been cited a rarely used law in war timecalled the judges to lift or limit their sentence.

Libya has not experienced particular peace from the uprising that took place in 2011 and the country was divided in 2014 between eastern and western factions, with rival governments ruling in every area.

A government of national unity based in Tripoli under Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-dbeibah settled through a process supported by the UN in 2021, but the House of Representatives based in Benghazi It no longer recognizes its legality.