The American judge questioned Nigeriani’s deportation, Gambiani in Ghana

A federal judge of the United States raised serious concerns about the deportation of Nigerian and Gambian migrants to Ghana based on an agreement between the Trump administration and the Ghana government.

Judge Tanya Chutkan of the Washington District Court, DC, on Saturday questioned the legality of the agreement after the lawyers representing some of the migrants claimed that their customers had to face the risk of persecution if returned to their countries of origin.

Chutkan ordered the United States government to provide a sworn declaration in detail to prevent the forced return of the deportees from Ghana to Nigeria and Gambia. He described the agreement as a possible “final race” around the laws on US immigration prohibiting deportations in which migrants could be exposed to danger.

“I was not shy in saying that I think this is a very suspicious scheme,” said the New York Times.

Although he criticized the government’s actions, Chutkan refused to govern in favor of migrants, observing that this decision could be immediately to remain from the Supreme Court.

The controversy followed a cause intended on Friday by five migrants who claimed to have been removed from a Louisiana detention structure, chained and put on an American military plane without being informed of their destination. The cause, supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and by the ASIICIC ASIATICS who advanced, argued that migrants had legal protection against deportation to Nigeria and Gambia.

However, the United States Department of Justice contrasted that he no longer had the custody of migrants and insisted that the Court was missing from jurisdiction on issues involving diplomatic agreements. The Department also cited a sentence of the Supreme Court that allows deportations to countries other than the home of a migrant.

In the meantime, the president of Ghana, John Mahama, confirmed that his government had signed an agreement with the United States to host deportees of West Africa, revealing that 14 migrants had already arrived in the country.

The development has aroused criticism from human rights groups, which accuse the United States of outsourcing deportations in ways that undermine the protections established for vulnerable migrants.

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