10 More Illegals Deported to Eswatini
You probably have never heard of the African nation of “Eswatini,” but President Trump sure has, and he just sent nearly a dozen more illegal migrants there under his highly successful mass deportation campaign.
A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States arrived early Monday in the African nation, authorities there said. They are the latest of more than 40 deportees sent to Africa since July after the Trump administration struck agreements with at least five African nations to take migrants under the administration’s “new third-country deportation program,” which, despite protests by rights groups and others, has proven to be quite successful in ridding the U.S. of unwanted illegals.
A lawyer for two of the latest deportees told The Associated Press earlier on Monday that their flight had arrived in the southern African kingdom after departing from Alexandria, Louisiana, and stopping in Puerto Rico, Senegal, and Angola.
Tin Thanh Nguyen, the U.S.-based lawyer, said he represents two Vietnamese nationals who were on the flight. He said they had been held at the Alexandria Staging Facility immigration detention center in Louisiana.
According to the Associated Press, the Eswatini government confirmed in a statement that 10 deportees had arrived and “have been securely accommodated in one of the country’s correctional facilities.” It didn’t name them, give details on their nationalities, or say where they are being held. It said they were “in good health and undergoing admission processes.”
The AP went on to say that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, but has previously said that President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “are using every tool available to get criminal illegal aliens out of American communities and out of our country.”
Four men from Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and Yemen who were deported to Eswatini in mid-July have been held in the country’s maximum-security Matsapha prison awaiting official charges for nearly three months, their lawyers have said. Nguyen represents two of those men.
DHS said the men sent to Eswatini in July were convicted criminals who had deportation orders. A Jamaican man in that first group was repatriated to his home country last month. After the arrival of the latest deportees, the Eswatini government said it “remains committed to the humane treatment of all persons in its custody.”
The four men have been allowed to make phone calls to their families and lawyers in the U.S. However, authorities haven’t allowed an Eswatini-based lawyer to visit them. The lawyer won a court ruling on Friday, granting him access, but the government immediately appealed, blocking him from visiting them.
U.S. authorities have referred questions over the men’s treatment to officials in Eswatini, a small kingdom bordering South Africa, where the king holds absolute power and has been accused of clamping down on pro-democracy movements. King Mswati III has ruled the nation of around 1.2 million people by decree since he became monarch in 1986 at the age of 18. Political parties are effectively banned.
The U.S. has also sent deportees to South Sudan, Rwanda, and Ghana, and has an agreement with Uganda, though no deportations there have been announced.
There are reports that Whitehouse wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini.
Bill, don’t you think we are overstepping our rules of engagement while also engaging in “cruel and unusual punishment” which is spelled out as WRONG in our Constitution, 8th amendment, ratified in 1791? It’s as clear as the 2A except for the definition of either cruel or unusual. The court has fine-tuned that with a half dozen court decisions. Evolving standards of decency is one standard determined by the court, unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain is another —- I think that’s worth legal action on this one given the unusual places we dump these guys and never follow up.
At least his latest dump zone is not a war zone and they are being incarcerated.
But ask yourself: what does it cost you, the taxpayer, to fund these dump zones?
You claim “his highly successful mass deportation campaign” which depends on your measurement. On the numbers, this was a failed commitment and broken promise before he started. You must be measuring on the optics – you like seeing this crap. It makes for good TV, eh.
A digression. As a product manager for a Fortune 100 company, I solicited and owned the development budget and product P&L, once there was a product. We judged the need for new products from customers, competitors, me, the labs, and our functional organizations, a top one with lots of input was sales. I used to laugh when these guys would come in with their ideas backed by their grandiose promises of sales by units or revenues. I cannot count how many times a newbie would put up wild fantasies of numbers. By now you must realize that I count everything, it’s a sickness, it’s who I am. I can put a number on how much fun a Ferris wheel ride is, if pushed. So I would take the sales units, units, and divide by sales per year/month/day and then compute the number units each sales person had to close ease day. More often than not, the answer was hilarious, but really simple to understand. Trump blew this number by everyone and not one of you, not anyone in the press, held him to task.
So, here we go: Trump, to get the job, touted he would rid the US of all illegal aliens. Most see it as 14 million. He did, and he said it a lot. Let’s use 14 million, 4 years, his promise that you voted for. That’s 3.5M a year, 292,000 per month, 9,600 per day, working Sundays. Isn’t happening, and never would. Four hundred per hour, 24/7. I would instantly look at his resources to handle that and conclude, scientifically: a bigger boat won’t do the impossible. My proof: his own current numbers. And a sniff test for reality. Yeah, it’s that bogus.
Secondly, Noem lies. So does her boss. And that’s not in the Constitution. She and Trump say 400K deported, 1.6M self-deported. That’s 50K deported forcibly per month for eight months given they started end of January, and Noem’s number was up to August. That’s 200,000 self-deports per month for eight months given Noem said this was up to August. Gee, I have that sales guy pitching big numbers feeling. At 200 per plane, 737 size, that’s 1,000 planes per month, 6,700 planes per day. For the numbers Noem swears are the truth. Think that might be noticed? But no one has seen them go. These guys are big on marketing and video’s; don’t you think a picture of 6,700 planes taking off would be stellar? How about 100…
At the end of August, when the 1.6M was pitched, DHS said “A DHS spokesperson told CBS News that it sourced the 1.6 million figure from its own numbers out of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, although its news release included a chart from an analysis released earlier this month by the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that supports immigration restrictions.” That means CIS made it up, they are a right-wing anti-immigration 529. Noem lied about where she got her numbers and she got her numbers from a biased source who is guessing, sorry estimating.
CBS coverage: *https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/undocumented-immigrants-left-us-2025-data-estimate/*
On 10/7 The NYPost reported: “President Trump’s deportation effort is on track to kick 600,000 illegal migrants out of the country in the first year of his sweeping nationwide crackdown, new data released to The Post says.”
The NYPost further reported “ICE agents and other feds have also arrested more than 457,000 illegal immigrants, which officials pledge is “just the beginning” of things to come.” So, the 400K sounds right. Let’s use 8 months because they started 1/20/25 making it 57K per month. If the mark needs to be 292K per month, even if we double 57K to 114K for “ramp” as they get better and better each month, they are still less than 50% needed to meet their promise.
Here’s CBS again with end of September numbers from ICE that do not align with Trump and NO onEhoMe: *https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna189148* These numbers and Trump’s number just don’t add up.
Trump’s NEW stated goal when he actually got to office and figured out how stupid you were to believe his fake promise was to prioritize “the worst of the wurst” (one reason he’s going to Chicago). However, DHS stated that there are 650,000 criminals which means NoOneHoMe and Trump are not doing what they said they would, are not focusing on the worst of the worst, and seem to be making up the numbers for results. Good luck getting the price tag from them.
They can never deliver on their promise. They, you, and most Republicans never checked the math. You loved and now live the lie. They are not focusing on the criminal element and it’s anything that moves. That was a lie. IMO, it’s cruel and unusual punishment to send folks to death-camp gulags or countries where they can’t even speak the language, and war zones.
But the bigger question is the money we are spending for this. He’s got most of the FBI working immigration instead of domestic terrorism. Like 40%. National Guard is overtaxed already. No one is trained, that’s expensive, and no one knows how much it costs or what we are spending. Personally I would rather get a nice empanada versus watching this shitshow unfold He’s funding five countries to incarcerate our deportees; for how much? All the military, and equipment, how much in gas alone? His deficit is already bigger than the last three years of Biden, how high will he go?
We are spending too much money, not being transparent, out-n-out lying about the numbers, and exhibiting a cruelty beyond what the founder’s thought of with the 8th amendment. IMO.
And let me ask you: is your life better? Gonna get one of these undocumented job vacancies opening up? Feel safer? I am betting not much has changed.
It’s not that I want the undocumented to continue to stay here illegally, but there’s a better way to do this: it’s called e-verify, it’s a bipartisan bill, it’s a system that works and is in operation today, and any issues with it would be far easier to fix than to have to shoot a priest in the face with a pepper ball and then laugh about it.
What a great post!!!!! Congratulations Mr. Dunger. But you over killed it You don’t know when to stop. But remember. There’s hope for you. Just stop being so stupid.