DHS deports convicted criminals to tiny African nation Eswatini
The men are originally from Yemen, Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica and Cuba. McLaughlin didn't say whether the men had completed their sentences in the United States before their removal.
Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, is a landlocked country bordering Mozambique and South Africa. The nation is smaller than Maryland, suffers from severe poverty, high unemployment and the world's highest rate of HIV and AIDS, according to the CIA World Factbook.
The United States has long sought to deport immigrants to third countries when their own home nation is recalcitrant or won't accept their own deportees. Countries including Vietnam, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and China have often refused to take their citizens back.
The Trump administration is attempting to scale up third-country deportations after the Supreme Court in June suspended a lower court ruling requiring the administration give deportees due process and an opportunity to claim fear of persecution before they're sent to a country that isn't their own.
In a July 8 memo following the SCOTUS decision, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons said if the United States "has received diplomatic assurances" that deportees "will not be persecuted or tortured," they can be shipped there without further proceedings.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has negotiated with countries around the world to accept foreign nationals, including with war-torn South Sudan and El Salvador, which has locked up hundreds of deportees in a notorious mega-prison. Early in the administration, ICE sent some 300 immigrants to Panama; many were from Asia and the Middle East and spoke no Spanish.
Immigrant advocates say deporting people to a country that isn't their own where they don't speak the language is a violation of human rights. The administration has argued that immigrants who commit seious crimes should be removed without recourse.
"These depraved monsters have been terrorizing American communities but thanks to @POTUS Trump (and) @Sec_Noem they are off of American soil," McLaughlin said in her post.
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Once a sleepy farming village, irrigation in the late 1970s turned its dustbowl fields into a fertile plain of lush olive and lemon groves. Soon, polytunnels were used to protect lettuce and artichoke crops while fields of ripening melons now ring the town. Thousands of labourers were needed to plant and harvest the crops and Spain looked abroad to fill shortages. Now the sprawling town is home to around 6,500 Moroccan-born workers as well as migrant communities hailing from Mali, Senegal, Romania and Ecuador. Professor Soto said: 'Many migrants arrived legally, but there's also been irregular migration, with thousands working in the informal economy or living in precarious housing.' Brought up in regional capital Murcia, the professor says some of Torre-Pacheco's schools have over 60 per cent of pupils from migrant backgrounds. Meanwhile, some migrants live in ramshackle properties that lack electricity or sanitation and, according to Professor Soto, have 'little meaningful integration' with Spanish society. In September 2021, a suspected suicide terror attack was unleashed in nearby Roldan. Moroccan-born Abdelllah Gmara stabbed himself then accelerated a VW Golf at over 60mph into the terrace of Honey's Bar, a popular venue with British expats. One diner was killed and others were injured. The driver, who reportedly left notes suggesting a jihadist motive, also died. Yet, outwardly at least, most in the town seemed to rub along. Professor Soto added: 'On the surface, things remained calm — but many locals felt ignored, especially as services became overwhelmed.' 'They have no identity' At the same time, many second and third-generation descendants of Moroccan immigrants are struggling for identity in a town where they face racist abuse from some. 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