Sierra Leone will receive the first batch of West African refugees from the US Immigration Issues

The first plane carrying 9 refugees from West Africa has arrived from the United States to Sierra Leone, making it the latest country in Africa to receive refugees who have been expelled from the administration of President Donald Trump. The destruction of immigration by Trump.

When they arrived on Wednesday at the airport near the capital of Freetown, they include five people from Ghana, two from Guinea, one from Senegal and one from Nigeria, according to the Ministry of Interior of Sierra Leone.

They were all “depressed because of the months they spent in US prisons,” said Doris Bah, a health worker at the facility, adding that many of them wanted to return home.

“Some of those deported were arrested on the streets and where they worked, while another was arrested while playing football in the US,” Bah said.

They are staying in a hotel and are expected to return to their countries within two weeks at the latest, he added.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Timothy Musa Kabba told reporters on Wednesday that the government has agreed to receive migrants for about 90 days before they go to their countries, and that the agreement is supported by a $1.5m grant from the US government “to pay for humanitarian aid and services related to the agreement”.

The US has signed a third-party deportation agreement with eight other African countries, many of which have been hit hard by the Trump administration’s policies to restrict trade, aid and immigration.

Other African countries that are known to sign treaties are in the Democratic Republic of CongoEquatorial Guinea, South SudanRwanda, Uganda, EswatiniGhana and Cameroon.

Freetown did not say whether other permits were agreed.

Human Rights Watch, urging African countries to reject the arrangement, argued in September that the “unrecognized agreements” were “part of a US policy that violated international human rights law”.