The Trump administration has sparked widespread condemnation by deporting five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen to Eswatini, a small African nation with no prior connection to the deportees.
This move is part of a controversial 'third-country deportation' policy, where migrants are sent to countries other than their own when their home nations refuse to accept them. Civil society groups and opposition leaders in Eswatini have denounced the action as a violation of human rights and likened it to 'human trafficking disguised as deportation.' The deported men are reportedly being held in solitary confinement, raising further concerns about their treatment.
The policy has triggered anger across Africa and renewed debate over the ethics and legality of US immigration enforcement practices.
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