CAPE TOWN: The US Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it has expanded the Trump administration’s mostly covert third-country deportation program by sending five individuals it calls “barbaric” offenders to the small African country of Eswatini.
Since the Supreme Court removed prohibitions on sending people to nations with which they have no links, the US has already deported eight men to South Sudan, another African nation. Following their arrest over two weeks ago, the South Sudanese government has refused to provide an update on the whereabouts of the individuals, who are also referred to as dangerous criminals.
The men transferred to Eswatini include natives of Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen, and Laos. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin claimed in a late-night post on X that they had arrived aboard a plane, although she did not specify the time or location of their arrival.
They were “individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,” she added, and all had criminal convictions. McLaughlin noted that although the individuals “have been terrorizing American communities,” they were now “off of American soil.
According to McLaughlin, one of them was a “confirmed” gang member and they had been found guilty of crimes including child rape and murder. She shared mug photographs of the males along with what she claimed to be their criminal histories on social media. They had no names.
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