00:00Ghanian President John Dramani Mahama said that Ghana has agreed to accept West African nationals who were deported from the U.S.
00:09Mahama later confirmed that Ghana had already received a group of 14 deputies, including Nigerians and one Gambian.
00:16He later said the deputies had already been facilitated a return to their own countries.
00:21There is no information on the total number of deputies Ghana is willing to take.
00:25In July, the U.S. deported five individuals to Eswatini and eight others to South Sudan.
00:32Rwanda received seven migrants deported from the United States in August, weeks after the two countries reached an agreement for the transfer of up to 250 people.
00:42Rice groups have argued that the Trump administration's increasing practice of deporting migrants to third countries violates international law and the basic rise of migrants.
00:51The deportations have faced opposition by cause in the U.S., though the Supreme Court in June allowed the government to restart swift removals of migrants to countries other than their homelands.
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