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Ghana Sued Over U.S. Third‑Country Deportations as Lawyer Seeks to Halt Onward Removals

Ghana frames the intake as a humanitarian step with more arrivals expected.

Ghanaian President John Mahama revealed last week his government had struck a deal with the United States to accept deportees from west Africa
Africans deported by US to Ghana at risk if sent home, lawyer argues

Overview

  • A Ghana-based lawyer filed a High Court suit to stop the transfer of 11 U.S.-deported West Africans to their home countries, citing risk of torture and persecution.
  • The filing says U.S. immigration judges had granted protection to at least eight of the 11 against removal to their countries of origin.
  • Five deportees are believed to be held in a Ghanaian military facility and six in another site, a situation the lawyer calls unlawful detention.
  • President John Dramani Mahama confirmed the bilateral intake, while Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa described it as a humanitarian arrangement not endorsing Trump’s policies.
  • A U.S. federal judge criticized the transfers as skirting immigration courts yet said the case fell outside her jurisdiction, and Ablakwa said about 40 more deportees could arrive within days.