Over 70 Ghanaian immigrants were deported from the United States
yesterday for visa-related offences including staying illegally, over
staying their permits.
The all-male deportees arrived at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport
in handcuffs before they were handed over to local authorities,
different Ghanaian websites says.
According to local news portal 3news.com, security and disaster
management services welcomed the deportees and assisted them to get to
their destinations.
They were reported to have been given 100 Ghana Cedis ($23) each after
clearance as some of them had no luggages nor means to contact their
families.
This is the second mass deportation of Ghanaians from the United States in recent times.
Last year, the United States deported 108 Ghanaian immigrants for
reasons including drug-related offences, staying illegally, over staying
their permits and other crimes.
They were returned to the Kotoka International Airport in November.
The deportees refused to disembark from the plane in protest of alleged
inhumane treatment including shackling before and during the journey.
It took the intervention of Ghanaian security and immigration officials to convince them to disembark after over an hour.
Foreign Affairs Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway had said in January
that Ghanaians without proper documentations abroad should reconsider
their decision and return home.
Member of Parliament and former deputy education minister Samuel
Okudzeto Ablakwa condemned the ill treatment of deportees who are
shackled or handcuffed.
“I want to stress that we all have to condemn the way these deportees
have been treated. Inasmuch as we all concede that the deportees have
questions to answer, it is important that these deportees’ rights are
respected,” he told Class FM today.
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