October 7, 2025 | 05:43 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The United States has once again deported a group of immigrants to a third country in Southern Africa, Eswatini, marking the second such deportation to a nation unrelated to the immigrants' home countries.
The Eswatini government confirmed on Monday, October 6, 2025, that it had received 10 individuals deported from the U.S. who are not citizens of the kingdom, Al Jazeera reported. This follows the arrival of five other U.S. deportees sent to Eswatini in July.
The White House confirmed the latest deportation on Monday, stating that the individuals had committed serious crimes.
While neither the U.S. nor Eswatini confirmed the nationality of the individuals who arrived on Monday, Tin Thanh Nguyen, a U.S.-based immigration lawyer, stated that the group includes three individuals from Vietnam, one from the Philippines, and one from Cambodia.
Human rights groups have criticized the treatment of the first group deported to Eswatini, immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen. They were reportedly detained in isolation cells and denied access to legal representation.
Nguyen stated that he represents two individuals who arrived on Monday and two from the previous group, but he has been unable to communicate with any of them. "I cannot call them. I cannot email them. I cannot communicate through local counsel because the Eswatini government blocks all attorney access," he told Reuters.
The deportations are part of a policy, primarily used by the Trump administration, to send expelled immigrants to third countries when legal restrictions prevent them from being sent back to their home nations. Human rights activists oppose this practice, fearing it could leave individuals stranded in countries where they do not speak the language and may not receive a proper legal process. The Trump administration has previously used South Sudan, Ghana, and Rwanda for "third-country" deportations.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson stated that the latest group deported to Eswatini had been convicted of "heinous crimes," including murder and rape. "They do not belong in the United States," Jackson said.
Activists in Eswatini, a small mountainous kingdom bordering South Africa, have condemned their government's secret agreement with the U.S. and have filed a lawsuit to overturn it.
Meanwhile, Eswatini's Department of Correctional Services has affirmed its commitment to treating all detainees humanely, stating they will be held in correctional facilities until they can be repatriated to their home countries.
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