by Jameelah Mullen
September 29, 2025
Ghanaian president states the nation initially accepted 14 West African nationals deported by the U.S.
Eleven West African nationals deported from the U.S. to Ghana beneath an settlement with the Trump administration have been deported once more, in keeping with their lawyer. This raises considerations that a few of them could face hazard of their residence international locations.
After the US deported West African immigrants to Ghana, the nation’s authorities had beforehand claimed that each one the deportees had been despatched again residence. Nevertheless, the deportees and their legal professionals later instructed The Related Press that 11 of them had been nonetheless held at a facility in Ghana.
The deportees from Nigeria, Mali, Gambia, and Liberia filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Ghanaian authorities final week, searching for their launch from detention. Eight of them argued they’ve authorized protections in opposition to being deported to their residence international locations because of security considerations.
“We’ve to tell the courtroom that the individuals whose human rights we’re searching for to implement had been all deported over the weekend,” their lawyer, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, instructed the court, in keeping with ABC Information.
As a result of legal guidelines stop deporting migrants to their residence international locations, the Trump administration has been attempting to ship them to different nations by agreements with their governments. Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama confirmed Ghana’s settlement with the US.
“We had been approached by the U.S. to simply accept third-party nationals who had been being faraway from the U.S., and we agreed with them that West African nationals had been acceptable as a result of all our fellow West Africans don’t want a visa to come back to our nation,” Dramani instructed Reuters.
The Trump administration’s deportation program has confronted criticism from human rights advocates who cite worldwide protections for asylum-seekers and categorical considerations about whether or not immigrants will likely be correctly screened earlier than being deported. The Trump administration has been searching for methods to forestall immigrants from coming into the U.S. illegally and to take away these already within the nation.
Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan are different international locations that function locations for third-country migrants deported from the US.
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