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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00:00The United States has dispatched five men to the small African nation of Eswatini as part of Trump administration's expansion of its third country deportation program, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday.
00:16In a late-night update on X, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLennan stated that the men who are citizens of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos arrived in Eswatini via plane.
00:34She noted that they were all convicted criminals and described them as individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back.
00:46Eswatini authorities have not yet commented on any agreements to accept third-country deportees or the fate of these individuals in their nation.
