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US sends third-country deportees under secrecy to the small African kingdom of Eswatini
Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | July 16. 2025 | AP Bitter LOSERS

Posted on 07/16/2025 6:52:55 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration's largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.

The U.S. has 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 South Sudanese government has declined to say where those men are after they arrived nearly two weeks ago.

In a late-night post on X, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the 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 terrorizing American communities" but were 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.

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 clamping down on human rights.

“There has been a notable lack of official communication from the Eswatini government regarding any agreement or understanding with the U.S. to accept these deportees,” Ingiphile Dlamini, a spokesperson for the pro-democracy group SWALIMO, said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. “This opacity makes it difficult for civic society to understand the implications."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; deport; eswatini; trump
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini

The government is an absolute monarchy, the last of its kind in Africa,[21] and has been ruled by King Mswati III since 1986.[2


21 posted on 07/16/2025 7:37:49 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: ConservativeMind

Perhaps it can be filmed as a reality TV shown back in the countries they are from call it deported and alone


22 posted on 07/16/2025 7:52:11 AM PDT by datricker (Go Trump/Vance! )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Analysts say some African nations might be willing to take third-country deportees in return for more favorable treatment from the U.S.

Doesn't New Guinea still have Head Hunter Cannibals? Might be a simpler solution.

- Asking for a friend. ;-)

23 posted on 07/16/2025 8:26:27 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Just a quick reminder of the illegal alien criminals that Trump sent to South Sudan - and whom the Democrats are fighting tooth and nail to keep in the U.S.

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Trump is fixing the mess Biden got us into through four years of unfettered, unvetted illegal immigration.

Thank God for Trump.

24 posted on 07/16/2025 8:30:26 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Eswatini

And there's no new meme yet?

25 posted on 07/16/2025 8:30:53 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Send them all to Wakanda ...


26 posted on 07/16/2025 8:32:04 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Bon of Babble

No Swedes?


27 posted on 07/16/2025 8:40:51 AM PDT by lewislynn (If you think Elon Musk is a genius you havent seen his "truck".)
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To: lewislynn
Well, the media do like to re-name them - as if they're red-blooded Americans:

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28 posted on 07/16/2025 8:44:03 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I did not have Eswatini on my gambling card.

We have no obligation to deport a criminal to a country he claims to be from. Deport him anywhere.

Do it by lottery on television. It can be like "The Running Man".

Maybe he'll go to Ukraine. Maybe he'll go to Afghanistan, Iran, or Haiti. Place your online bets before we spin the wheel and find out.



29 posted on 07/16/2025 9:19:18 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ConservativeMind
I would also feed them the same cheap meal every day of their lives—with a vitamin pill to make up the difference.

The meal needs to be "gringo food".

30 posted on 07/16/2025 9:21:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MrRelevant

—”Southern Africa is nice this time of year Ive heard.”

Also, the last known address for Biden’s turd.
May he enjoy SA for many, many years.


31 posted on 07/16/2025 9:22:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messag)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Why not send them back where they came from? Seriously?


32 posted on 07/16/2025 9:27:26 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: ConservativeMind

—”I really like this idea of sending criminals to prisons where no one speaks their language.”

Some say there is nothing new under the sun?

Project Exile
“Project Exile was named for the idea that if the police catch a criminal in Richmond with a gun in a crime, the criminal has forfeited his right to remain in this community, will face immediate federal prosecution and stiff mandatory federal prison sentences (often five years), and will thus be “exiled” to federal prison, often far away from the criminal’s home town.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Exile#:~:text=The%20guiding%20principle%20of%20the,crimes%20and%20to%20maximize%20deterrence.


33 posted on 07/16/2025 9:28:12 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messag)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

What’s in it for these countries that take these people?


34 posted on 07/16/2025 9:43:19 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: pburiak

It was too easy to confuse the name with Switzerland.


35 posted on 07/16/2025 9:45:16 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: pburiak
It’s landlocked, so nobody can wear their itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini on the beach in Eswatini.

The ladies don't have to. They still have the Reed Dance where the young women dance bare-breasted in front of the King. He chooses a new extra wife annually. Last I read, many years ago, the King was up to 14 wives.

In itself, that might be a violation of Amendment 8 to the Constitution which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.

36 posted on 07/16/2025 9:52:24 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: tips up
There are some great game parks in Eswatini.

Wow! African Alcatraz.

37 posted on 07/16/2025 9:56:38 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: magooey

I meant cruel and unusual punishment to the man to have 14 wives.


38 posted on 07/16/2025 9:58:04 AM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Formerly known as Swaziland, to us old farts.


39 posted on 07/16/2025 9:59:58 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: Salman
Why not send them back where they came from? Seriously?
Because the place they came from will let them go free.

Guess where they'll go? Your town/neighborhood?...seriously.

40 posted on 07/16/2025 11:53:09 AM PDT by lewislynn (If you think Elon Musk is a genius you havent seen his "truck".)
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