The United States has started sending unwanted migrants to a sparsely populated archipelago in the tropical Pacific, the island nation of Palau said Wednesday.
"We welcomed our first individual at the airport in late May, brought him to his temporary residence and helped him connect his phone and settle in," the Palau president's office said in a statement to AFP.
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