{"id":1687,"date":"2026-01-04T01:59:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1687\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:59:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:59:18","slug":"u-s-ghana-deportation-deal-could-alter-both-nations-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1687\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S.-Ghana deportation deal could alter both nations&#8217; economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its efforts to ramp up deportation efforts, the Trump administration <a class=\"externallink\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/ghana-agrees-accept-west-africans-deported-us-president-says-2025-09-10\/\">signed a third country deportation pact with Ghana earlier this year,<\/a> allowing the West African nation to receive and detain deportees who aren\u2019t originally from Ghana. And according to <a class=\"externallink\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/capitalbnews.org\/ghana-us-deportations-trump-ice\/\">reporting from Adam Mahoney at Capital B,<\/a> the result may have a chilling effect on both sides of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompared to the Biden administration, deportations of African nationals in general has more than tripled this year,\u201d said Mahoney. \u201cThis push is really about showing folks in Africa that the journey is not worth it to the United States, and for folks living in the U.S. who have migrated there, people think that this push is really about telling them that they should self-deport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mahoney spoke about his reporting with \u201cMarketplace\u201d host Kimberly Adams, including how this might affect the Ghanaian economy. <\/p>\n<p>To listen to the interview, use the media player above. <\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its efforts to ramp up deportation efforts, the Trump administration signed a third country deportation pact with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1749,1748,79,1750,1747,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-1687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ghana","8":"tag-african","9":"tag-deportation","10":"tag-ghana","11":"tag-ice","12":"tag-immigration","13":"tag-west-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}