Legal protections have been sidestepped through the West African deportation deal

Fourteen West Africans deported from the US to Ghana have been sent to their home countries despite lawyers’ claims they face persecution or torture there. The group included 13 Nigerians and one Gambian who had legal protections preventing their direct deportation from America. Lawyers filed a lawsuit arguing that the Trump administration used Ghana as a workaround to circumvent US immigration laws that protect people from being returned to dangerous situations. Ghana’s government said it accepted the deportees out of concern for fellow West Africans’ suffering, though critics called the arrangement a problematic endorsement of US immigration policies.

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