US EditionTrump Administration Deports Five Convicted Migrants to Eswatini
UNITED STATES, JUL 16 – The Trump administration deported five convicted criminals to Eswatini after a Supreme Court ruling enabled third-country deportations without migrants contesting potential harms.
- Five convicted criminals were deported to Eswatini on a flight that arrived Tuesday, as part of a third-country removal initiative launched during the Trump administration, according to U.S. immigration authorities.
- This followed the U.S. Supreme Court's late June ruling allowing deportations to countries other than migrants' own without offering a chance to challenge harm, while the administration sought more African agreements.
- The deported men came from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen, and Laos and had convictions ranging from murder to child rape, but Eswatini has not disclosed any agreement details or plans for them.
- DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin characterized the men as exceptionally brutal individuals whose countries of origin declined to accept their return, expressing gratitude to President Trump and DHS Secretary Noem for their removal, and emphasizing that they are no longer present on U.S. soil.
- This deportation expands a largely secretive program that sent eight men to South Sudan earlier this month, raising concerns about human rights and political repression under Eswatini's long-ruling absolute monarchy.
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As part of a Trump-era crackdown on undocumented criminals, a plane carrying convicted rapists and child molesters deported from the US has landed in Eswatini. However, rather than being returned to their home countries (Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos), they are being rerouted to African nations. Eswatini is the latest country to receive them as the US expands this quiet and controversial strategy across the continent.
Five migrants from Cuba, Jamaica, Vietnam, Laos and Yemen were sent by the United States to Eswatini, a small African nation. Thus, the Trump Administration extends its deportation program to third countries, which was held back for several weeks pending a decision by the Supreme Court.
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