By EDWARD ACQUAH and WILSON MCMAKIN, Associated Press

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — A group of 14 West Africans deported from the U.S. to Ghana have all been sent to their home countries of Nigeria and Gambia , a Ghanaian government spokesman said on Monday, as officials pushed back on criticism of the deportation whose legality has been questioned by lawyers of the deportees.

Authorities in Ghana have defended accepting the deportees on humanitarian grounds. The 13 Nigerians and one Gambian “have since left for their home countries,” Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Ghana’s minister for government communications, told The Associated Press.

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has pushed back on criticism that the decision was an endorsement of U.S. President Donald Trump’s migratio

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