The Ghana flag is seen in in Accra, Ghana, on March 6, 2025. Ernest Ankomah/Getty Images AP —

A federal judge on Saturday said it appeared the Trump administration was making “an end run around” US court orders prohibiting five African immigrants to be deported to their home countries by sending them first to Ghana, which was poised to then relocate them to countries where they could face torture or death.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan ordered the government to detail Saturday night how it was trying to ensure Ghana would not send the immigrants elsewhere in violation of domestic court orders. One of the plaintiffs has already been shipped from Ghana to his native Gambia, where a US court found he could not be sent, Lee Gelernt of the American Civil Liberties Union told Chutka

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