Ghana receives 14 West African nationals deported from the US

By Ope Adetayo and Edward Acquah

A group of 14 West Africans deported from the U.S. arrived in Ghana, the country’s president said. The country joins Eswatini, Rwanda and South Sudan as African countries that have received migrants from third countries who were deported from the U.S., a controversial approach whose legality lawyers for the deportees have questioned.

“We agreed with (Washington) that West African nationals were acceptable because all our fellow West African nationals don’t need a visa to come to our country,” President John Mahama told reporters late Wednesday.

The deportees had arrived in the country and included Nigerian and Gambian nationals who planned to return to their countries, he added.

U.S. President Donald Trump in his second term, has been aggressively cracking down on immigrants he says are criminals and from countries whose nationals have overstayed their visas in the U.S.

However, there have been concerns about the conditions facing some deportees sent