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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Sat Jan 17, 2026, 09:58 AM Jan 17

Ghana Helped U.S. Deport Migrants, and Now Its Own Citizens Are Shut Out

https://capitalbnews.org/ghana-us-immigration-visa-freeze/

Ghana Helped U.S. Deport Migrants, and Now Its Own Citizens Are Shut Out
Twenty-seven African nations are included in a U.S. visa freeze, even as many have helped enforce Washington’s deportation agenda.



“America is a bully that is never satisfied,” Oliver Barker-Vormawor said from Ghana. 
The Trump administration’s new freeze on immigrant visas from 75 nations is the latest example, he added. 

African nations make up a striking share of the 75 countries swept into the Trump administration’s new freeze on immigrant visas, a move officials say targets people “whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates.”
There are 27 African countries on the 75-country visa suspension list.

African governments and advocates say the visa freeze is landing on a continent already bearing the brunt of Washington’s harder line on migration and security.

Across West, East, and North Africa, the U.S. government has invested in “counterterrorism” partnerships and struck recent deportation agreements that have helped turn cities like Accra, Addis Ababa, and Mogadishu into waypoints in a global removal system, even as ordinary Africans face some of the strictest visa regimes in the world

Barker-Vormawor, a civil rights activist and lawyer, argued that the U.S. “used us and dumped us in that bogus deportees deal” before turning around to hit Ghana with an even harsher visa ban. “Now that they got what they wanted, they have reimposed an even more aggressive visa ban on Ghana.”
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Ghana Helped U.S. Deport Migrants, and Now Its Own Citizens Are Shut Out (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Jan 17 OP
I'm pretty sure the higher ups knew that shithole and comrades truly.................. Lovie777 Jan 17 #1

Lovie777

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1. I'm pretty sure the higher ups knew that shithole and comrades truly..................
Sat Jan 17, 2026, 10:08 AM
Jan 17

do not like nor wants POC in the USA.

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