Overview

• Documents reported by The New York Times indicate Eswatini sought large payments to accept detainees and proposed holding 150 people for more than $10 million.
• The five men sent to Eswatini in July, including Jamaican national Orville Etoria, remain incarcerated without new charges at Matsapha Correctional Complex.
• Eswatini officials say the men will be repatriated and the International Organization for Migration is working on transit to their countries of origin.
• A June Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for third‑country removals, and an ICE memo allows deportations with as little as six hours’ notice or none if diplomatic assurances are deemed credible.
• Homeland Security officials described the men as extremely dangerous, Jamaica disputes any refusal to take back its nationals, and rights groups cite Eswatini’s poor human‑rights record and U.S. travel cautions.