WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 29: U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order dealing with automobile repairs in the Oval Office at the White House on June 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. Trump followed up the signing by answering questions about the SAVE America Act. Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by ALEX WONG / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
Lawyers filed a suit against Ghana at west Africa’s top human rights court on behalf of deportees sent there under the United States’ third-country deportation policies, the legal team said Tuesday.
As part of a sweeping crackdown on immigration, US President Donald Trump has expanded the categories of people targeted for deportation, including those with legal protections.
In cases where Washington is barred from sending people home — after US judges found they likely face torture or persecution, for example — it has sent deportees to “third countries” such as Ghana.
Ghana has then sent them home — or, as AFP has reported, dumped them in neighbouring Togo without documents.
