The U.S. government has announced that it has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program. Read this Associated Press story. Where is Eswatini, previously known as Swaziland?
In a post on X, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlinsaid the men, who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, had arrived in Eswatini on a plane.
NEW: a safe third country deportation flight to Eswatini in Southern Africa has landed— This flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.
The Associated Press notes that “[t]he U.S. already deported eight men to another African nation, South Sudan . . . The U.S. also has sent hundreds of Venezuelans and others to Costa Rica, El Salvador and Panama.”
