W/Africans deported to Ghana dumped in Togo without documents

West Africans deported by the United States to Ghana are present fending for themselves successful Togo aft being dumped determination without documents, lawyers and deportees person told AFP.

The latest section successful US President Donald Trump’s vast, opaque deportation programme, their saga became nationalist earlier this period erstwhile Ghanaian person John Mahama disclosed that his state had struck a woody to judge deportees from the region.

Eight to 10 West African nationals person since been forcibly sent by Ghana to Togo, bypassing a ceremonial borderline crossing and near connected the thoroughfare without passports.

“The concern is terrible,” said Benjamin, a Nigerian national, who told AFP implicit the play helium was staying successful a edifice country with 3 different deportees and lone 1 bed, surviving disconnected wealth sent from their families successful the United States.

Up to 28 radical person arrived successful Ghana truthful far.

Accra disclosed an archetypal batch of 14 and US-based lawyer Meredyth Yoon said a 2nd level that could transportation that aforesaid magnitude had since landed — though it was unclear however galore radical were connected it.

The archetypal 14 deportees had won protections successful US migration courts preventing their removal to their location countries for fearfulness of persecution, their lawyers said.

But Washington is sending them to Ghana arsenic a loophole, Yoon told AFP — with Accra making it wide radical volition beryllium forwarded connected to their location countries.

– Togolese nationals successful hiding –

Two Togolese nationals were deported to the Togo borderline with Benjamin — a pseudonym helium is utilizing to support his identity, arsenic helium fears persecution from the Nigerian government.

They were crying, repeating “it’s over, it’s over,” helium said, adding that they’ve since gone into hiding.

Benjamin and different deportee, Emmanuel — besides a pseudonym — said they spent much than 2 weeks nether subject defender successful Ghana’s Dema Camp, successful the municipality of Bundase, 70 kilometres extracurricular Accra, with 9 different deportees who suffered from vulnerability to heat, mosquitoes and unsanitary water.

The Ghanaian subject yet told them they were taking them to a hotel.

Instead, they were driven to the Aflao borderline crossing, connected the outskirts of Togolese superior Lome, and with the practice of Togolese borderline officials taken “through the backmost door” of the installation and near connected the different side.

“We are successful hiding close present due to the fact that we person nary benignant of documents, ID whatsoever,” said Emmanuel, a Liberian national.

The State Department told AFP, “We volition prosecute each due options to region aliens who should not beryllium successful the United States”.

ICE did not respond to a petition for comment.

The Togolese and Ghanaian governments person not commented connected the developments.

AFP

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