
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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&#8217;s &#8220;new third-country deportation program,&#8221; which, despite protests by rights groups and others, has proven to be quite successful in ridding the U.S. of unwanted illegals.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">According to the Associated Press, the Eswatini government confirmed in a statement that 10 deportees had arrived and &#8220;have been securely accommodated in one of the country&#8217;s correctional facilities.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t name them, give details on their nationalities, or say where they are being held. It said they were &#8220;in good health and undergoing admission processes.&#8221;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The AP went on to say that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment, but has previously said that President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem &#8220;are using every tool available to get criminal illegal aliens out of American communities and out of our country.&#8221;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Four men from Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and Yemen who were deported to Eswatini in mid-July have been held in the country&#8217;s maximum-security Matsapha prison awaiting official charges for nearly three months, their lawyers have said. Nguyen represents two of those men.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The four men have been allowed to make phone calls to their families and lawyers in the U.S. However, authorities haven&#8217;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.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">U.S. authorities have referred questions over the men&#8217;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.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">There are reports that Whitehouse wants to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini.</p>

10 More Illegals Deported to Eswatini
