Des Africains expulsés des États-Unis vers le Ghana, abandonnés sans papiers au Togo
These forced departures to the African continent constitute the latest episode in the vast expulsion program implemented under the presidency of Donald Trump.
The situation of these nationals was revealed in early September, when Ghanaian President John Mahama announced the agreement reached with the United States to accept deportees from the region.
Since then, eight to ten West African nationals have been forcibly transferred from Ghana to Togo, without going through an official border post, and left without passports.
"The situation is terrible," Benjamin, a Nigerian national who uses this pseudonym to protect his identity, told AFP.
He says he is staying in a hotel room with three other deportees, sharing a single bed and living on money sent by their families back in the United States.
Up to 28 people have arrived in Ghana so far.
Ghanaian authorities announced the arrival of a first group of 14 deportees in early September. According to American lawyer Meredyth Yoon, a second plane, capable of carrying up to 14 people, has since landed, but the exact number of passengers on board remains unclear.
According to lawyers, the first 14 deportees benefited from protections granted by US immigration courts, prohibiting any return to their countries of origin due to the risk of persecution.
But Washington sent them to Ghana through a legal loophole, Yoon told AFP, while Accra made it clear that the people concerned would then be returned to their countries of origin.
Two Togolese nationals were deported to the Togolese border alongside Benjamin, for fear of being harassed by the Nigerian authorities.
"They were crying, saying 'it's over, it's over,'" he said, adding that they have since gone into hiding to avoid being found by the Togolese authorities.
"We are living in hiding because we have no identity documents," said Emmanuel (pseudonym), a Liberian national.
Asked by AFP, the US State Department indicated that it "will continue to use all appropriate means to remove foreigners who should not be on American soil."
Contacted, the US Immigration Agency did not immediately respond to AFP's requests.
The Togolese and Ghanaian governments have not yet commented on this matter.
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Commentaires (4)
Les immigres sans papiers qui sont envoye dans d'autre pays sont ceux qui ont refuse de dire d'ou ils viennent et ceux que leur pays d'origine ont refuse de reprendre.
Si un Senegalais est arrete par ICE dand papier d'identite, il doit dire qu'il est Senegalais pour qu'on l'expulse au Senegal...Sinon il peut etre larque en Asie ou au Rwanda etc...
On attend patiemment 2050 pour trouver du travail...
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