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11 migrants deported by US to Ghana were sent home despite safety concerns, their lawyer says
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Eleven West African nationals deported by the U.S. to Ghana were sent to their home countries over the weekend despite safety concerns, their lawyer told a court in Ghana on Tuesday.
The U.S. had deported a total of 14 West African immigrants to Ghana under controversial circumstances.
Although Ghanaian authorities earlier said they have all been sent home, the deportees and their lawyers later told The Associated Press that 11 of them were still at a military facility in Ghana.
“This is precisely the injury we were trying to prevent,” he said of the safety concerns of the deportees.
Ghana has joined Eswatini, Rwanda and South Sudan as African countries that have received migrants from third countries who were deported from the U.S.___Banchereau reported from Dakar, Senegal.
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