# ‘I had never heard of Eswatini’: Deported by the US to a country that rejects them

https://mins.news/en/item/70128

- France 24, 2026-09-23 06:56 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260923-never-heard-eswatini-deported-by-us-country-that-rejects-them-forbidden-stories

> Over the past several months, migrants previously convicted in US courts have been imprisoned in Eswatini after being deported by the United States. Unfamiliar with the small kingdom and viewed suspiciously by residents as “criminal” arrivals, they were sent there under a secret deal reportedly struck by the Trump administration as part of its mass-deportation programme.

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