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Rights group Amnesty International has condemned the latest deportation of migrants from the United States to Eswatini, describing the move as unlawful.
Eswatini, an absolute monarchy with a widely criticised human rights record, confirmed last year that it received about $5.1 million from Washington to accept deportees under the arrangement.
Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Flavia Mwangovya, described the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policy as “cruel and racist.”
“The Eswatini authorities must stop facilitating these unlawful transfers,” Mwangovya said.
According to local sources, 10 of the latest deportees are from African countries, while one is from South America.
The latest arrivals bring the number of people deported by the United States to Eswatini to 29 since July 2025 under third-country deportation agreements with several African nations.
Eswatini has said it intends to repatriate the deportees to their countries of origin.
Two of the earlier deportees, a Jamaican and a Cambodian, have since been returned to their home countries. However, the remaining 17 are being held without charge at a high-security prison.
Amnesty has called on Washington to end what it described as a deeply abusive deportation programme and to “dismantle the mass detention and deportation machine.”
