Some of the West Africans were there. Deported from the US to Ghana According to the lawsuit filed Friday, all passengers were held for 16 hours in a “Strite Jacket” during flights where all passengers were tied up and given only bread and water.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington on behalf of five immigrants says passengers woke up in the middle of the night on Sept. 5 and could not be told where they were going until hours of a flight on a US military cargo plane.
The migrants will be “detained in a gross state for five days in Ghana and surrounded by armed soldiers from outdoor detention facilities,” called DEMA Camp, the complaint said. The conditions are “bad and sad” with shelter and a tent with a small running water.
It is said that immigrants will not be sent from Ghana, but to other countries determined by US immigration judges to be too dangerous. El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica and several African countries.
The complaints filed by lawyers to advance justice by Asian Americans, asks judges to immediately halt deportation to their country of origin.
“The defendant enlisted in the Ghanaian government to do dirty work.” “Despite the minimal pass-through involvement of the Ghanaian government, the defendant’s purpose is clear: he saved an individual who was granted relief given fear-based relief from being sent to his country of origin anyway, in violation of a US immigration judge and in violation of a US immigration law ruling.”
The Homeland Security Agency and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The lawsuit comes one day after the Ghanaian president confirmed the arrival of 14 deportees. Ghana joined Eswatini, Rwanda and South Sudan as African countries that received immigration from third countries deported from the US.
President Donald Trump is actively cracking down on immigrants who he describes as criminals and “aliens” in countries where citizens overstay visas in the United States
Lawyers and activists said the Trump administration appears to be making such demands on countries most affected by his policies. Trade, transfer and assistance.
The five West Africans who filed the lawsuit were not originally from Ghana, and the five West Africans who filed the lawsuit did not designate it as a potential removal country, according to the lawsuit.
Plaintiffs are identified only by initials of the complaint. Four are “in danger of being sent to our country within hours.” He has already been taken away by the Gambia and is hidden despite “repeated his fear” to return to his country.
Three plaintiffs are from Nigeria and two are from Gambia. The lawsuit says 14 West Africans were taken from their cells at an ice detention center in Alexandria, Louisiana.
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