- Until 14 American deportees consisting of nationals from Nigeria and the Gambia have already been received in Ghana.
- President John Mahama says that Ecowas protocols allow the free movement of people from the Member States without the express requirement of Visa.
- Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan and Eswatini have also reported that they have received American deportees under Donald Trump’s push to know to know illegal immigrants.
Ghana has accepted a plan that accepts American deportees and join other African countries Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan and Eswatini when receiving individuals kicked from America under the urge of President Donald Trump to weird illegal immigrants in the nation.
According to media updates, a maximum of 14 American deportees consisting of Nigeria and the Gambia are already Ghana While Donald Trump rises his campaign against immigrants without papers and violators in America.
The BBC Cited President John Mahama from Ghana who said that American deportees, originally from West African countries, would now be accepted in his country with an agreement between Accra and Washington.
Mahama noted that under the economic block of the region, ECOWAs, protocols make free movement of people from the Member States possible without the express demand for visas at border crossings.
Ghana: We were approached by the US to accept deportees
Ghana’s movement follows a series of deportations of illegal immigrants from the US to various other African countries, including South Sudan, Eswatini and Rwanda. Uganda is also receiving American deportees.
“We were approached by the US to accept third-party subjects that were removed from the US and we agreed that West African nationals were acceptable,” said President Mahama, adding: “All our fellow West African nationals do not need visas to come to our country.”
While Ghana said that the 14 nationals received from the US, were people from Gambia and Nigeria, Washington asked African countries to accept deportees from Jamaica, Vietnam and Laos as part of Trumps -Push to check immigration.
However, the strategy of the Trump administration has received resistance, with rights groups that indicate that the measure is violating the basic rights of people. At the same time, some countries such as Uganda have clarified that they are not open to receiving people with a criminal past or non -counseled minors in the scheme.
Nigeria who is not willing to accept deportees
The most populated country of Africa, Nigeria, has already insisted that it will not accept that they have been deported from the US from the US deported
After weeks of increased pressure to deport Salvadorian Kilmar Garcia to Uganda, the authorities in the US announced a change of plan last week, and noted that the man who is accused of a gang member will probably end up in Esbatini.
The Trump government has unveiled a plan to send Kilmar Abrego, whose arrest and fighting to stay in the US have become a flash point in his immigration -oriented homes, to the small African nation of Eswatini.
An officer of the US Department of Interior Security said that Uganda was exchanged with Eswatini as the likely destination for the former construction worker, partly to save Garcia, 30, from “persecution or torture” in Uganda, a country that already shot one of the toughest refugees in Africa.
“That statement of fear is difficult to take seriously, especially in view of the fact that you (through your lawyers) claimed that you are afraid of prosecution or torture in at least 22 different countries … Nevertheless, we hereby report that your new country of removal Eswatini, Africa, Africa,” said US Department of Security Function.
Since his arrest months ago, American officials have ruled that the Salvadorian is a member of the MS-13 gang, an indictment that Garcia has consistently denied.
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Rwanda, South Sudan accept American deportees
At the end of August, Rwanda announced that it received a maximum of seven American deportees as part of the country’s agreement with the deal of the Trump government on the occurrence of immigration. The government spokesperson added that Rwanda expects to “close” and receive up to 250 American deportees under the scheme.
“Three of the individuals have expressed the wish to return to their home country, while four want to stay and want to build lives in Rwanda,” said the government of the government of Rwanda, Yolande Makolo, adding: “Regardless of their specific needs, all these people will receive the correct support and protection of the Rwandan government.”
Last Saturday, a Mexican man flew back to Zuid -Sudan to his native Hiomeland by the US and stated that he “kidnapped himself” when Trump -immigration officers arrested him and deported to South Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world.
According to the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Sudan. Apuk Ayuel Mayen, Jesus Muñoz Gutierrez, Juba left behind a “flexible and orderly” way in the custody of the Mexican ambassador-driven to Juba, Alejandro Estivill.
“While I was here, they treated me well,” Muñoz told the press in Juba and added: “I finished my time in the US and they had to take me back to Mexico. Instead, they wrongly sent me to South Sudan.”
American deportees crosses 200,000
Munoz and seven other people with a criminal history in the US were initially deported to an American military base in Djibouti, where they were held for weeks when the Trump Government fluid to secure the legal green light to move them to neighboring South Sudan.
Media reports indicate that the authorities in Juba work with contacts from the home countries of the other American deportees to facilitate their journey back to their motherland.
At the moment, the Trump administration is of the opinion that a maximum of 140,000 people from April 2025 were deported from the US, with other projections that estimate the figures at half that amount.
On August 28, 2025, CNN reported that ice cream almost only deported 200,000 People in seven months since Trump returned to the office under his aggressive clamping party on immigration.
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