On Tuesday, the Ministry of Interior Security resumed the expansion flights of the Third Country by deporting five immigrant -detineies, all from different countries, to the small nation of Eslatini in South Africa.
The five men from Vietnam, Laos, Jamaica, Cuba and Yemen have a criminal background, ranging from murder of sexual violence, according to a social media post of the DHS spokesperson Tricia Mclaughlin.
“This flight took individuals so unique barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,” wrote McLaughlin.
It is not clear whether the men in the law enforcement are in Esbatini. McLaughlin said to NBC News: “That is up to Eswatini.”
The land surrounded by land is between South Africa and Mozambique and covers an area that is slightly smaller than New Jersey.
Representatives of the Eswatini government and their embassy in Washington did not respond to requests for comments.
The resumption of deportations of the third country comes when ICE new guidelines are deemed that its employees are allowed in certain circumstances to deport migrants to countries that are not their own in just six hours – and without guarantees from the third country that they “will not be prosecuted or tortured.”
In other cases, according to the new guidance, ICE must serve the immigrant with a notification of removal stating which country the federal government intends to deport them into a language that the immigrant understands.
Ice officers will not ask in the affirmative whether the person is afraid to be sent to that country, according to the memo, but those who express such anxiety will be referred within 24 hours for screening for possible protection. Ice could still try to send the person to another country, other than the one they were anxious to be sent to.
The mountainous landscape in Mbabane, capital of Eswatini. (Xavier Duvot / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images -file)
The Supreme Court has cleared the road for DHS to resume the rapid deportation of migrants to countries that are not theirs at the end of June.
The decision was made after a deportation flight with eight migrants in Texas was reportedly intended for South Sudan at the end of May, which led to a legal struggle that led to the men being held in Djibouti.
In an application at the Supreme Court, the Trump government said that it had received guarantees from South Sudan that the men “will not be subject to torture” under the United Nations Convention against Torture.
This article was originally published on nbcnews.com
