An American judge said that she was unable to stop the return of four men in Ghana’s nursery to the countries in which immigration judges in the United States decided that they faced torture or persecution, and refused to interfere in the victory of the Trump administration.
The American boycott judge, Tania Chutcan, said that the administration appears to be defrauding the United Nations Convention against Torture by sending West Africa to Ghana, but its hands are linked.
Chutcan wrote that she “felt anxious and dismayed from the circumstances where these removal operations are carried out, especially in light of the government’s admission of the plaintiffs from the prosecutors to the countries where they face torture and persecution.”
The ruling on Monday evening in the Federal Court in Washington wipes the road to 14 West Africa to send them to their countries of origin from Ghana, including the four referee. They seem to be destined for Nigeria and Gambia, although immigration judges in the United States find that they have a reason for fear of persecution or torture.
Chutcan said it was Latest example From the Trump administration, which is evading the prohibition of deportation by sending people outside the country anyway and claiming that American judges have no power to return them.
The judge distinguished it from the case Kilmar Abrago GarciaWho sent the administration a mistake to a prison in his hometown of El Salvador. In the Africa case, unlike Abeergo Garcia, she wrote, the administration can be legally sent to Ghana.
“It is clear that we are disappointed with the ruling, but there is no reason that calls on the administration to ask the court to obey the laws that prohibit the transfer of individuals to countries that are likely to be tortured and persecuted,” said Li Gilrrent of the American Civil Liberties Union, which joined the lawsuit, in a statement.
The US Department of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The four West African lawyers said earlier on Monday that they remained in Ghana, which contradicts a Ghanaian official. Felix Kwaki Odoso, Minister of Governmental Communications in Ghana, told Associated Press that all 14-13 Nigerians and Gambion – “have left since then to their mother country.”
The administration, which is facing decisions by immigration judges, was that people could not be sent to their countries of origin, increasingly Try to send them to third countries Which the administration has established agreements to take the deportees.
Ghana joined
The lawsuit filed on behalf of some immigrants said that they were detained in “Straitjackets” for 16 hours on a trip to Ghana and detained for several days in “launcher conditions” after they arrived there. She said that Ghana was doing the “dirty work” of the Trump administration.
Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzito Apkua has referred to criticism that the decision was to support immigration policies for US President Donald Trump. Ablakwa said on Monday that Ghana had not received any financial compensation from the United States due to deportation.
The minister said: “We were unable to continue to suffer from the suffering of our colleagues in West Africa.” “At the present time, the strict understanding we have with Americans is that we will only take West Africa.”
The Nigeria government said that it was not informed of its citizens, who were sent to Ghana, and that it had previously received the Nigerians who were deported directly from the United States.
“We have not rejected the Nigerians who were deported to Nigeria. What we refused only was the deportation of other citizens to Nigeria,” said Kimby Emva, a Nigeria Foreign Ministry spokesman.