Dakar, Senegal (AP) – Ghana is The latest African countries It has received or agreed to receive third citizens deported by the United States, but the legality of the approach is being raised questionable.
Eswatini, Rwanda and South Sudan They also adopted such exiles. Uganda I agreed to a deal with the US to receive certain deported immigrants, but haven’t received it yet.
Experts say some countries may accept deportees to gain goodwill in negotiations with the Trump administration on policies such as trade. transfer and assistance.
Ghana authorities I said it on Monday The 14 deportees received last week have been returned to their home country. The four men’s lawyers said they were still in custody in the country as of Monday evening and were unable to immediately settle the various accounts.
The exile was sent to Ghana in a short period of time.
The immigrants deported to Ghana by the US government included 13 Nigerians and one Gambian. None of them originally came from Ghana.
When they arrived in Ghana, it was not immediately clear. Court documents show he woke up in the middle of the night on September 5th and were not told where he was going until a few hours on a US military cargo plane flight.
Some deportees had no relation to the country and did not designate it as a country of potential removal. The lawsuit they filed against us through their lawyers.
Ghana says only West Africans can receive
Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okdozet Abrakwa said his country embraced “purely humanitarian principles” because his country was “on purely humanitarian principles” and because they were fellow West Africans.
“We were unable to take over the suffering of our fellow West Africans,” Abrakwa said. “So, there was a vacuum in West Africa and I thought we should intervene as part of our Pan-African qualifications to care for West Africans,” he said. Other West African countries They had rejected requests to receive deportees from third countries.
The current state of department stores
Ghana’s government communications minister Felix Kwakiye’s office told the Associated Press on Monday that the 14 migrants “later left for their home country.”
As of last week, the arrangement was for buses to bring Nigerians home, and usually takes 7-8 hours to travel, Ghanaian President John Mahama told reporters at the time.
Nigerian officials said they had not explained deportation in either Ghana or in us, expressing shock that Nigerians were sent to other countries when some citizens were deported directly from us to Nigeria.
“What we refused is the deportation of other people to Nigeria,” Kimebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, a spokesman for the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Associated Press.
Latin American countries have deported immigrants
Many of the countries that have agreed to such deportation transactions are in Latin America and Africa.
The US sent hundreds of Venezuelans to a Notorious El Salvador prison. Venezuelans and immigrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran, China and other countries have also been sent to Costa Rica and Panama.
Last month, Paraguay signed a third country agreement with the Trump administration. Although Mexico has not signed such agreements, it has accepted exiles from Central America and other Western hemisphere countries, including Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela.
Human rights concerns
The Trump administration’s deportation programme has faced widespread criticism from human rights experts citing international protections for asylum seekers and questioning whether immigrants will be properly screened before deportation.
A lawyer representing Gambian sent to Ghana told the Associated Press that dispatchers and several other people had orders banning their interests for fear of torture in their country.
Rights groups also argue that most African countries that have received such deportation have one thing in common. It is a poor record of human rights records that government critics often target.
The migrant deported to Ghana was detained in “severely deplorable” circumstances after being held in a “strite jacket” for 16 hours, according to a US lawsuit filed by lawyers.
Ghanaian authorities denied allegations on the conditions of detention and said when they flew to Ghana they were unaware of the deportee’s circumstances.
Maureen A. Sweeney, a law professor at the law school at the University of Maryland Law, said that despite the legal order banning legal orders that they fear their safety, “clear violations of both countries” to protect immigrants will be sent into their country, despite being “a violation of clear obligations.”
“This is part of a pattern by the US government of extreme indifference (at least) to the government’s duties and the human outcomes of its massive deportation campaign,” Sweeney said.
