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US deports migrants from Jamaica, Cuba, other countries to small African kingdom of Eswatini
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....S deports migrants from Jamaica, Cuba, other countries to small African kingdom of Eswatini<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 16-7-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Cape Town, Jul 16 (AP) The United States sent five migrants it describes as “barbaric” criminals to the African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration's largely secretive third-country deportation program, the US Department of Homeland S....
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....ecurity said Tuesday. The US has already deported eight men to another African country, South Sudan, after the Supreme Court lifted restrictions on sending people to countries where they have no ties. The South Sudanese government has declined to say where those men, also described as violent criminals, are after it took custody of them nearly two weeks ago. In a late-night post on X, Homeland S....
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....ecurity Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the five men sent to Eswatini, who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, had arrived on a plane, but didn't say when or where. She said they were all convicted criminals and “individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.” The men “have been terrorising American communities" but were....
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.... now "off of American soil,” McLaughlin added. McLaughlin said they had been convicted of crimes including murder and child rape and one was a "confirmed" gang member. Her social media posts included mug shots of the men and what she said were their criminal records and sentences. They were not named. It was not clear if the men had been deported from prison or if they were detained in immigra....
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....tion operations, and the Department of Homeland Security and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn't immediately respond to requests for clarification. Four of the five countries where the men are from have historically been resistant to taking back some citizens when they're deported from the US. That issue has been a reoccurring problem for Homeland Security even before the Trump administ....
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....ration. Some countries refuse to take back any of their citizens, while others won't accept people who have committed crimes in the US. Like in South Sudan, 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. Civic groups there raised concerns over the secrecy from a government long accused of clamp....
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....ing down on human rights. “There has been a notable lack of official communication from the Eswatini government regarding any agreement or understanding with the US to accept these deportees,” Ingiphile Dlamini, a spokesperson for the pro-democracy group SWALIMO, said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. It wasn't clear if they were being held in a detention centre, what their legal ....
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....status was or what Eswatini's plans were for the deported men, he said. An absolute monarchy Eswatini, previously called Swaziland, is a country of about 1.2 million people between South Africa and Mozambique. It is one of the world's last remaining absolute monarchies and the last in Africa. King Mswati III has ruled by decree since 1986. Political parties are effectively banned and pro-de....
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....mocracy groups have said for years that Mswati III has crushed political dissent, sometimes violently. Pro-democracy protests erupted in Eswatini in 2021, when dozens were killed, allegedly by security forces. Eswatini authorities have been accused of conducting political assassinations of pro-democracy activists and imprisoning others. Because Eswatini is a poor country, it “may face signific....
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....ant strain in accommodating and managing individuals with complex backgrounds, particularly those with serious criminal convictions,” Dlamini said. While the US administration has hailed deportations as a victory for the safety and security of the American people, Dlamini said his organization wanted to know the plans for the five men sent to Eswatini and “any potential risks to the local pop....
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....ulation.” US is seeking more deals The Trump administration has said it is seeking more deals with African nations to take deportees from the US Leaders from some of the five West African nations who met last week with President Donald Trump at the White House said the issue of migration and their countries possibly taking deportees from the US was discussed. Some nations have pushed bac....
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....k. Nigeria, which wasn't part of that White House summit, said it has rejected pressure from the US to take deportees who are citizens of other countries. The US also has sent hundreds of Venezuelans and others to Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama, but has identified Africa as a continent where it might find more governments willing to strike deportation agreements. Rwanda's foreign minister to....
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....ld the AP last month that talks were underway with the US about a potential agreement to host deported migrants. A British government plan announced in 2022 to deport rejected asylum-seekers to Rwanda was ruled illegal by the UK Supreme Court last year. Not a dumping ground' The eight men deported by the US to war-torn South Sudan, where they arrived early this month, previously spent weeks ....
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....at a US military base in nearby Djibouti, located on the northeast border of Ethiopia, as the case over the legality of sending them there played out. The deportation flight to Eswatini is the first to a third country since the Supreme Court ruling cleared the way. The South Sudanese government has not released details of its agreement with the US to take deportees, nor has it said what will hap....
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....pen to the men. A prominent civil society leader there said South Sudan was "not a dumping ground for criminals.” Analysts say some African nations might be willing to take third-country deportees in return for more favourable terms from the US in negotiations over tariffs, foreign aid and investment, and restrictions on travel visas. (AP) RD RD<BR> News - Press release - PIB....