Ghana says all immigrants deported by the US have been sent home, contradicting lawyers
Source: Associated Press
Ghana says all immigrants deported by the US have been sent home, contradicting lawyers
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI, CHINEDU ASADU and EDWARD ACQUAH
Updated 1:27 PM EDT, September 16, 2025
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Authorities in Ghana pushed back Tuesday on claims that four African immigrants recently deported by the U.S. remain in Ghanaian detention, reiterating their assertion that all such migrants have been returned to their home countries.
The government said Monday that all 14 of the deportees had been returned to their countries of origin in West Africa. On Tuesday, Ghana’s presidential spokesperson Felix Kwakye Ofosu said in an interview with The Associated Press that 13 Nigerians were sent home on a bus and that one Gambian was sent home on a plane.
Lawyers for four of the Nigerians said in U.S. court filings Monday and in interviews with the AP that the four were still being held in a facility in Ghana. The lawyers said the Nigerians faced persecution in their home country, but a judge rejected their request for a court order to return them to the U.S., though she expressed alarm over the deportations.
The Ghanaian government spokesperson denied knowledge of such a facility. “None of them are staying in this country. Nobody is being held in any camp and nobody’s right has been abused,” Ofosu said of the deportees in a phone interview.
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This is either refoulement by proxy or enforced disappearance. The Trump administration has already done both in prior deportations.