The Trump administration's rush to quickly deport immigrants with criminal records has led U.S. officials to send several men to prisons in Africa even though their home countries would have taken them back, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: President Trump's team has justified deportations to prisons in Eswatini and South Sudan by claiming that no other countries — including the immigrants' homelands — would accept criminals ousted from the U.S. • But foreign government officials, immigration attorneys and court filings indicate that wasn't the case with at least two groups of deportees this summer that included a dozen migrants from Mexico, Vietnam and Jamaica who'd been convicted of crimes such as murder and robbery. • It's unclear whether U.S. officials gave those deportees' home

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