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He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free.

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

© Moises Saman/Magnum, for The New York Times

Roberto Mosquera in detention in Eswatini.
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Deported From the U.S., Trapped in a Prison in Africa

Roberto Mosquera, a Cuban immigrant who has lived in the United States since 1980 and completed a prison sentence in 1996, was arrested by ICE last year and sent to a prison in Eswatini, a country in Africa he’d never heard of. After a hunger strike, Mosquera obtained a phone and talked with Nicholas Casey of The New York Times Magazine to share what is happening there.
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