More US deportees arrive in eSwatini

Eleven more migrants deported from the US have arrived in eSwatini as part of President Donald Trump's wide-ranging immigration crackdown. A US immigration attorney said the group includes at least two who have legal protection that advocates say should shield them from deportation. Africanews says it is the latest expulsion in line with the ​Trump administration’s unprecedented ‘third-country’ deal that has already seen 19 people sent to eSwatini since July 2025. Two of them – a Jamaican and Cambodian – have been repatriated, but 17 remain in a high-security prison, held without charge. It is not yet clear what are the nationalities of the 11 who arrived in eSwatini on Wednesday. Eswatini confirmed last year it had received around $5.1m from the US to accept the deportees. King Mswati III’s Government has been accused of human rights violations and Amnesty International has called the deportation scheme ‘deeply abusive’. While nations like eSwatini have held most US deportees indefinitely, other nations such as Ghana, have quickly sent them back to their home countries.

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