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The agency also claims the company has continually declined to implement higher security measures to avoid brokers and bots.

Ghana's foreign minister was quoted on Monday by Reuters news agency as saying the decision to accept the deportees was based on "humanitarian principle and pan-African empathy".

Earlier this year, SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler boasted of her agency’s effort to “overhaul” the Community Advantage Small Business Lending Company, which was intended to grant loans to underserved communities.

He complained that Kennedy’s agency had failed to fulfill the committee’s demand for “any documents or communications that would bring transparency to this situation,” meaning the Monarez firing.

The agency and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, did not respond to requests for comment.