An agreement between the country and the United States is behind the transfer of these nationals from different West African countries.

Donald Trump's policies are being felt around the world. In Ghana, the country is preparing to receive around 40 migrants deported from the United States in the coming days, Foreign Minister Okudzeto Ablakwa announced Wednesday evening. This is the second convoy planned as part of a controversial American program.

Last week, Ghanaian President John Mahama announced that he had reached an agreement with Washington to accept third-country nationals expelled from the United States from West African countries. As of early September, fourteen West African nationals had already arrived in the English-speaking country, located between Togo and Ivory Coast.

A flagship measure of Donald Trump

Deporting people to third countries, often where they have never lived, is one of Donald Trump's flagship measures against illegal immigration, with hundreds of deportations already carried out to Panama, El Salvador and South Sudan.

"I can tell you that we are expecting another 40 in the coming days," Minister Okudzeto Ablakwa told Channel 1 TV. "For humanitarian reasons and pan-African solidarity, we are accepting our fellow West Africans," he said.

The minister nevertheless stressed that Ghana would not accept "criminals."

American firm files complaint

According to him, the deportees, who are screened before arrival, will be allowed to remain temporarily in Ghana or transit to their country of origin.

The fourteen people who have already arrived in Ghana, from Nigeria, Togo, Mali, Gambia and Liberia, have "indicated that they want to return to their country of origin," the minister said.

Ghanaian authorities claimed last week that these people had already returned to their countries, a claim their lawyers dispute.

The Asian Americans Advancing Justice law firm, Grossman Young & Hammond, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on September 12.

People still detained in camps

Ghanaian authorities claimed last week that these people had already returned to their countries, a claim their lawyers dispute.

The Asian Americans Advancing Justice law firm, Grossman Young & Hammond, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government on September 12.

People still detained in camps

The lawsuit "challenges the U.S. government's unlawful deportation of five Nigerian and Gambian immigrants to Ghana, a country with which they have no ties," the organizations said in a statement Tuesday.

"Each of them had been granted protection from deportation by U.S. immigration judges, who determined that they would be at risk of persecution or torture if returned to their home countries," they added.

According to the lawyers, five of the 14 people deported to Ghana were still being held Monday evening "in a military camp surrounded by armed guards" near Accra.