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Eswatini Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by the Trump Administration

The Trump administration sent five deportees to Eswatini, an African kingdom, saying that their own countries would not take them. But Eswatini says it will send them home.

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Mswati III, King of Eswatini, addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 2023.

Trump Administration Resumes Deportation Flights, Sending Migrants to Eswatini

The five migrants on the latest flight, all from different countries, were sent to Eswatini, a small nation in southern Africa.

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Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, called the five migrants deported to the African nation of Eswatini “uniquely barbaric” in a social media post.
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