US EditionTrump administration restarts third-country deportations with flight to Eswatini
UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – The deportations followed a Supreme Court ruling allowing removals to third countries without migrants contesting potential harms, involving five migrants convicted of serious crimes, officials said.
- On Tuesday, officials announced that five convicted migrants were deported to Eswatini, a small kingdom in southern Africa located between South Africa and Mozambique.
- This deportation occurred after a late June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that allowed the Trump administration to restart sending migrants to third countries without providing them additional hearings.
- According to DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin, five men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen who were deported had criminal convictions for serious offenses, including crimes as severe as child sexual assault and homicide.
- McLaughlin shared on social media that the flight transported men whose actions were so egregious that their countries declined to accept their return, emphasizing that they have now been removed from American territory.
- This deportation exemplifies the Trump administration's expanded third-country deportation program and its pursuit of more agreements with African nations despite some pushback from countries like Nigeria.
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Trump Just Started Deporting Migrants Who Can’t Be Sent Home to This Tiny African Kingdom.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: The Trump administration has deported five convicted criminal migrants to Swaziland, also known as Eswatini, as it expands its third-country deportation program.WHO WAS INVOLVED: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Swazi authorities, and five foreign criminals from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen, and Laos.WHEN & WHERE: Deportations were announced Tuesday, with the migrants sent to Swaziland, Africa.KEY QUOTE…
Five criminal migrants are deported from the US to the African Kingdom, where people are outraged by the dubious deal
For example, they were convicted of murder. Now the US has deported five perpetrators in Africa's last absolute monarchy, where there is concern that the country will become a "criminal dump."
Five deported from US to Eswatini over criminal convictions
The United States has dispatched five men to the small African nation of Eswatini as part of the Trump administration's expansion of its third-country deportation program, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday.
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