Over 7000 Ghanaians face deportation from the United States

About seven thousand Ghanaian immigrants in the United States of America are to be deported for visa-related offenses including overstaying their permit and staying illegally.
This was uncovered to local media by the US Ambassador to Ghana Mr. Robert Jackson.

“In fact, about seven thousand of Ghanaians are currently at different stages of the deportation process. And we're not apologetic for that,” the United States Ambassador said this on local news portal Starr FM Online.

This issues came hours after the United Kingdom banned three serving parliamentarians of Ghana over visa-related fraud issues.

The legislatures had left their relatives to overstay in the United Kingdom illegally after traveling with them to the country.

“The UK High Commission regards the action as completely unacceptable. In most cases these behaviors may undoubtedly be regarded criminal in nature,” the British High Commission said.

In November last year, the US deported one hundred and eight (108) illegal immigrants to Ghana for drug-related offenses, over staying their permits, staying illegally, and other crimes.

These immigrants were deported to the Kotoka International Airport in November.

The illegal deportees earlier refused to deplane from the plane in a protest of alleged barbaric treatment before and during the journey.

It only took the intervention of security and some immigration officials to convince them to deplane after more than an hour of protest.

President of United State, Donald Trump has vowed to banish all illegal immigrants and those with criminal records as part of measures by the immigration to be rolled out.

Though Barack Obama pushed for immigration reforms, a reported record of two million deportations were executed during his administration as president of the United State.