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.

The United States has deported five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos, to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the king still holds absolute power.

The United States has deported five individuals from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small southern African nation governed by a king who still holds absolute power. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is the only nation in Africa where the monarch retains full executive power

The United States says it has sent five immigrants to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program.

US Homeland Security Department Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportees were “criminal illegal aliens” convicted of crimes including child rape and murder.

It is not clear if the men are being held in a detention centre, what their legal status is or what Eswatini’s plans are for them.

Around the world, right-wing forces are scapegoating migrants for the devastation caused by capitalism and, in countries like South Africa, extreme corruption.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.