Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has disclosed that 169 Ghanaians have been deported from the United States since January 2025, with an additional 120 awaiting final immigration decisions.
Updating Parliament on Thursday, November 20, the Minister revealed that a total of 388 Ghanaians had been detained in the U.S. this year on immigration-related grounds.
He explained that 120 of them are awaiting decisions from the Board of Immigration Appeals, while 49 have exhausted all legal processes and are pending final deportation arrangements.
“According to the Ministry’s records, 169 Ghanaians have been deported to Ghana since January 2025. Of this number, 90 arrived unaccompanied on commercial flights, while 66 were returned on chartered flights supervised by ICE agents,” he said.
Mr. Ablakwa emphasized that Ghana has not requested any financial, logistical, or material support from the United States in connection with the deportations.
Responding to questions from MPs, he stressed that the cooperation is based solely on humanitarian grounds.
“The government of Ghana has not requested any monetary support, logistical support, or material support for this intervention. We are Pan-Africanists. These are fellow West Africans in distress, being detained and treated without dignity, and we cannot look on as Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana,” he stated.
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