| By AP News Photos: YouTube Screenshots The US sends third-country deportees to the small African kingdom of Eswatini The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. Read more. |
| What to know: In a late-night post on X, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the men, who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, had arrived in Eswatini on a plane. She said they all were convicted criminals and “individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.” There was no immediate comment from Eswatini authorities over any deal to accept third-country deportees or what would happen to them in that country. Eswatini was previously called Swaziland. The U.S. already deported eight men to another African nation, South Sudan, after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on sending people to countries where they have no ties. The U.S. also has sent hundreds of Venezuelans and others to Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama. |
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