U.S. Outsourcing Its Deportation Problem to Authoritarian Regimes: The Troubling Case of Eswatini

Under the veneer of tough immigration enforcement, the Trump administration has quietly exported a complex problem overseas — sending deported immigrants convicted of heinous crimes not to their home countries, but to powerless third nations like Eswatini. This small southern African kingdom, ruled as an absolute monarchy with a documented record of human rights abuses and violent crackdowns on pro-democracy protests, now holds five such individuals in solitary confinement. Who truly benefits when America offloads the consequences of its border failures onto vulnerable foreign governments? While the Department of Homeland Security lauds these removals as victories for public safety on...