ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana’s decision to accept West Africans deported from the United States is not an endorsement of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, and the country is not receiving anything in return, the foreign minister said on Monday.

President John Dramani Mahama last week said Ghana had agreed to welcome an unspecified number of deportees after Washington asked it to take in “third-party nationals.” Mahama said 14 had already arrived, including Nigerians and one Gambian.

A U.S. judge on Saturday said it appeared the Trump administration had intentionally circumvented immigration laws with its deportations to Ghana.

At a press conference on Monday, Ghana Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said Accra’s decision was “grounded purely on humanitarian principle and Pan-

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