Ghana agreed to accept deported from the US and joined the growing list of African nations receiving undocumented immigrants who are excluded by US President Donald Trump’s administration.
The first dose of 14 people who are not Ghanaian were sent to the country, said Ghanaian President John Maham to journalists in the capital Ackra. These include the Nigerians and the Gambian national, said after the country agreed only to people from the West African region.
“The United States asked us to accept third -party nationals who were removed from the US, and we agreed with them that the West African nationals were acceptable,” Mahama said.
This agreement signals efforts to improve Ghana’s relations with the US-Jími sixth largest business partner-Poté, which Trump’s administration imposed 15% tariff on its goods and included Ghana on a list of 36 countries that potentially face visa ban.
Trump since he returned to the White House in January in January, forbade for undocumented migrants, and his administration negotiated agreements on their mission to countries other than their own.
The US government claims that people deported include dangerous criminals, but civil rights groups claim that this practice will have a greater impact on non -citizens who adhere to laws that are threatened to be sent to unknown places with a small one, if at all, affect.
Rwanda, Eswatini and South Sudan are among other African nations that agreed to accept third -party citizens deported from the US. Uganda also achieved a similar agreement, Al-Jazeera reported last month.
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