Immigration attorneys say the United States has deported at least 20 people to various African nations over the past two months — and several are now being held in maximum-security prisons despite facing no criminal charges.

Legal aid lawyers in New York say the U.S. has sent at least five men to Eswatini. For the first time, one of them has been identified as a Jamaican national who completed a criminal sentence in the U.S., only to end up imprisoned again overseas.

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Eswatini is among a growing list of African countries accepting noncitizen deportees who have no ties there — including Rwanda, South Sudan and, most recently, Uganda. Several more African nations are reportedly considering similar deals.

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