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<\/p>\nA lawyer in Ghana has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the transfer of 11 West Africans deported from the United States, arguing they face the risk of torture and persecution if returned to their home countries.<\/p>\n
President John Dramani Mahama announced earlier this month that Ghana had agreed to temporarily receive nationals from other West African states deported under U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration crackdown. He said Ghanaian authorities would assist the deportees in returning home, with some already having made the journey.<\/p>\n
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The case, brought by lawyer Oliver Barker-Vormawor, says the group includes citizens of Nigeria, Liberia, Togo, Gambia, and Mali. Court documents seen by Reuters state that at least eight of them had previously been granted protection by U.S. immigration judges against removal to their home countries because of the risk of torture or inhumane treatment.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit asks Ghana\u2019s High Court in Accra to halt any attempt to move them onward.<\/p>\n
As of Thursday, five deportees were being held at what is believed to be a military facility in Ghana, according to Meredyth Yoon of Asian Americans Advancing Justice, which has filed a related case in the U.S. Six others were reportedly moved to a separate location.<\/p>\n
A U.S. federal judge earlier this week criticized the deportations, saying they appeared to bypass U.S. immigration court rulings by sending people to a third country. However, she ruled she had no jurisdiction to stop the transfers.<\/p>\n
Ghana\u2019s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said Accra accepted the deportees on humanitarian grounds, stressing the decision was not an endorsement of Trump\u2019s immigration policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lawyer in Ghana has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the transfer of 11 West Africans deported…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,30],"tags":[46,65,60,49,50],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space-future","category-world","tag-africa","tag-analysis","tag-education","tag-human-interest","tag-international","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n