{"id":39139,"date":"2026-07-09T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39139"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:39:22","slug":"39139","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/39139\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven more Trump deportees arrive in Eswatini from the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a \u200bpolicy of sending them to third \u200ccountries arrived in Eswatini from the United States (US) on Wednesday, a US lawyer following the case said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The arrivals \u200bbring to 29 the number sent to \u200bthe southern African country under a $5.1 million \u2060agreement that has been challenged by lawyers \u200bwho say deportees are being detained despite having \u200balready served sentences for crimes committed in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alma David, a lawyer for some of the original \u200bdeportees sent to Eswatini last year, and who \u200bis in touch with local prison sources there, confirmed \u200cthe \u2060arrival to <em>Reuters<\/em> by text message.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Of the 29 deportees sent from the US to Eswatini, only two have been released and repatriated, \u200bone to \u200bJamaica and \u2060the other to Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An Eswatini government Spokesperson did not immediately respond \u200bto a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The detainees had \u200balready \u2060been transported to Eswatini&#8217;s notorious Matsapha correctional facility, David said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has also \u2060deported \u200bmigrants to other countries in \u200bAfrica, Asia and the Americas under the policy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39140,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39139","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a \u200bpolicy of sending them to third \u200ccountries arrived in Eswatini","published_date":"2026-07-09 08:37:10","news_description":"Eleven more migrants deported by the Trump administration under a \u200bpolicy of sending them to third \u200ccountries arrived in Eswatini","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39142,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39139\/revisions\/39142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}