By Ted Hesson, Phil Stewart and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Migrants in Texas who were told they would be deported to Libya sat on a military airfield tarmac for hours on Wednesday, unsure of what would happen next,

Experts, human rights workers and lawyers criticized reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya.

Last year, the US State Department noted the “life-threatening” conditions of prisons in Libya. Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières have each documented the awful conditions of prisons and immigrant detention centers in the war-ravaged country.