Judge slams Trump administration for 'disingenuous' plot to illegally deport Africans to Ghana

Source: The Independent

Judge slams Trump administration for ‘disingenuous’ plot to illegally deport Africans to Ghana

Lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of deporting five men in straitjackets to Ghana to get around court orders

Alex Woodward
in New York
Sunday 14 September 2025 02:09 BST

A lawsuit accuses the Trump administration of illegally deporting five African immigrants to Ghana, making the 16-hour journey in “straitjackets,” in an attempt to avoid court orders that blocked them from going back to their home countries.

A federal judge on Saturday said it appeared the Trump administration was making an “end run” around those court orders by first sending them to Ghana — which then could send them to countries where they face torture, persecution and death.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the government to provide assurances that Ghana would not send the immigrants elsewhere in violation of those court orders.

One day earlier, Chutkan said the Trump administration had, “with a wink and a nod,” deported those African nationals in an apparent attempt to have Ghana prepare to send them elsewhere.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ghana-deport-trump-kristi-noem-b2826075.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-slams-trump-administration-disingenuous-010947393.html