US deports ‘barbaric' migrants from Vietnam, Laos, other nations to Africa's eSwatini
United States deported five migrants from
Asian and
Caribbean countries to the small
African kingdom of eSwatini, officials said on Tuesday.
Jamaica ,
Laos ,
The deported migrants are nationals of
Cuba
Vietnam and
Yemen
'These criminal illegal aliens are so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,' the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrote on
social media
They were convicted of violent crimes such as child rape and murder, according to DHS.
US President
Donald Trump 's administration has defended so-called third-country deportations as necessary, since the home nations of some of those targeted for removal sometimes refuse to accept them.
The US Supreme Court in June paved the way for the Trump administration to resume deportations of undocumented migrants to countries that are not their own.
Washington deported eight other migrants to conflict-plagued South Sudan earlier this month.
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