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U.S. Deports Five Convicted Migrants to Eswatini Under New Fast-Notice ICE Policy

Rights groups warn the expedited removals breach migrants’ due process rights, raising concerns over potential harm in unfamiliar countries.

FILE - The seal of U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seen before the news conference with Acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons at ICE Headquarters, in Washington, on May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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Overview

  • The Department of Homeland Security executed a flight on July 15–16 sending five men convicted of violent crimes to Eswatini under the Trump administration’s expanded third-country deportation policy.
  • Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons’s July 9 memo allows deportations to proceed with 24 hours’ notice if no diplomatic assurances exist, six hours in exigent circumstances and no notice when assurances are deemed credible.
  • A late-June Supreme Court stay lifted a federal injunction that had required migrants bound for third countries to receive advance notice and a chance to contest potential harms.
  • Rights advocates argue the rapid removals violate migrants’ due process rights and international non-refoulement obligations by sending them to nations where they hold no citizenship.
  • The policy marks a significant departure from historical practice, extending expedited third-country deportations beyond previous narrow agreements such as those for alleged gang members in El Salvador.