{"id":34386,"date":"2025-07-16T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=34386"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T14:07:57","slug":"us-sends-migrants-to-eswatini-as-it-steps-up-deportation-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=34386","title":{"rendered":"US sends migrants to Eswatini as it steps up deportation campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=fbd1332e-e8ac-4e30-a012-44f00b3a13b9&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US has deported five migrants to the tiny southern African nation of Eswatini as President Donald Trump\u2019s administration steps up its aggressive deportation campaign to third countries.<\/p>\n<p>The five, who are from Cuba, Laos, Jamaica, Vietnam and Yemen, arrived in the southern African country, formerly known as Swaziland, on what the Department of Homeland Security called a \u201csafe third country deportation flight\u201d from the US, landing in the early hours of Wednesday local time. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis flight took individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,\u201d Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the department, wrote on X, saying they had been convicted of crimes ranging from murder and assault to robbery. <\/p>\n<p>She added that, thanks to Trump and Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem, they were now \u201coff American soil\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Eswatini, a country of 1.2mn people wedged between South Africa and Mozambique, is generally considered a safe country with relatively low crime rates.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue its quick-fire deportation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/us-immigration\" data-trackable=\"link\">migrants<\/a> to third countries, saying there was no need to slow the process by giving individuals an opportunity to contest their deportations. All that was required was an assurance from the State Department that they would not be harmed in the third country, the court ruled. <\/p>\n<p>It is the second time the Trump administration has deported people to Africa. <\/p>\n<p>This month, after long legal delays, Washington sent eight individuals from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan. The men had been held for weeks on a military base in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, while courts debated their fate. <\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar said last week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3bd7a432-a1e2-451b-9abd-91d2702b2640\" data-trackable=\"link\">Washington had put \u201cconsiderable pressure\u201d<\/a> on several countries, including Nigeria, to accept deportees but that Nigeria already had 230mn people of its own and would find it difficult to accommodate refugees with a criminal record. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US is mounting considerable pressure on African countries to accept Venezuelans to be deported from the US, some straight out of prison,\u201d Tuggar told Nigerian broadcaster Channels TV. \u201cWe have enough problems of our own\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009for crying out loud,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Trump met the leaders of Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal last week for a televised lunch focused on trade and investment opportunities, at which he said he hoped to \u201cmake progress on\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009safe, third-country agreements\u201d for deported migrants. It is unclear what any of the countries agreed to.<\/p>\n<p>In Eswatini, an absolute monarchy that was previously home to the world\u2019s worst HIV epidemic, people reacted strongly on social media, saying that Washington was treating Eswatini as a dumping ground.<\/p>\n<p>A person identified as Vikimpi Mngomezulu posted on Facebook: \u201cParliament must convene an emergency session today to reverse the US decision and also to reverse any government agreement it may have secretly entered into with the US. We accept refugees but not criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Eswatini government did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fbd1332e-e8ac-4e30-a012-44f00b3a13b9\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":34387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}