Overview

• Hours after a Ghanaian official told the Associated Press that all 14 West Africans had been sent to Nigeria and Gambia, lawyers filed a court document saying four men were still being held in Ghana.
• One plaintiff identified as K.S. was reportedly deported to The Gambia despite Convention Against Torture protections, and his attorneys say he is now in hiding.
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice sued on behalf of five men, alleging they were taken from an ICE facility onto a U.S. military cargo plane without notice, shackled, given bread and water, and four were restrained in straitjackets for about 16 hours.
• A federal judge ordered the U.S. to detail safeguards against refoulement, while the Justice Department argued the court cannot control another country’s actions and cited a Supreme Court ruling that eased third-country transfers.
• Ghana’s foreign minister said the country accepted the deportees on humanitarian grounds and received no compensation, as Nigeria complained it was not briefed and rights groups highlighted the program’s expansion to Eswatini, Rwanda, South Sudan and an agreement with Uganda.