Post AxlRTgpSbpcgylrR5M by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AxlQIxPKWwYJFzxOqm by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-01T13:42:47Z
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He Served His Time in the US, Then Was Deported to a Prison in Eswatini, AfricaThe case of Orville Etoria, a Jamaican citizen with legal residency in the #UnitedStates, highlights a tension in the #Trump #deportation agenda, in which immigrants can be sent abroad & detained indefinitely without charges.#law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #slavery #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/africa/trump-deportations-prison-us-eswatini-africa-jamaica.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AxlQbCrnnALcPoybke by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-01T13:46:09Z
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…#legal experts argue that there is little justification for sending immigrants to far-flung countries where they have never been & can be detained indefinitely without charges, as is the case for Mr. Etoria. They argue that the #Trump admin is unnecessarily putting deportees at risk by sending them to unfamiliar nations where they have few prospects or access to #DueProcess, instead of simply sending them home.#law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
(DIR) Post #AxlQlsHAgkOZjuvhZ2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-01T13:48:04Z
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Etoria has not seen a lawyer since his arrival in Eswatini, his lawyers say, & family members say they have had little contact with him & are worried about his condition.Etoria’s aunt Margaret McKen asserted that he should have been deported to Jamaica, where he holds a valid passport.“It’s inhumane,” she said. “He paid the penalty for what he did. Why is he in prison again?”#Trump #law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #slavery #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
(DIR) Post #AxlQx3W1Ez2ZmeCqQ4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-01T13:50:07Z
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Neither Eswatini nor the #US has explained why Etoria is being held despite completing his sentence in America & not being accused of any new crimes.Since the early days of #Trump’s 2nd term, his admin has brokered deals w/countries to accept deportees from other nations. #Immigration officials have instituted new rules that allow these 3rd-country #deportations from the US in as little as 6 hours.#law #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #DueProcess #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
(DIR) Post #AxlRIoPy3OkhKWkYm8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-01T13:54:02Z
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The Eswatini government at one point requested a half-billion dollars from the US in exchange for taking in third-country deportees, acc/to documents obtained by NYT.The documents indicate that Eswatini was willing to take >150 people from other nations for a cash payout of >$10 million from the US.Eswatini officials also asked whether the US expected deportees to be put on trial & sentenced by local officials once they arrived.#Trump #law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction
(DIR) Post #AxlRTgpSbpcgylrR5M by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-01T13:55:59Z
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A spox for Eswatini’s govt declined to comment on the details outlined in the documents, including on the amounts of money involved.…Jamaican officials said it was untrue that their country had been unwilling to take Mr. Etoria. “Our position is that we do not refuse any of our nationals, regardless of whatever they have done,” Joan Thomas Edwards, Jamaica’s top diplomat in southern Africa, said in an interview this month.#Trump #law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction
(DIR) Post #AxlS8CKSubPsG4g9Wi by jqheywood@mastodon.social
2025-09-01T14:03:17Z
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@Nonilex The tyrant of eSwatini murdered my former student Thulani Maseko, so I don't hold out much hope, that regime will be responsive.
(DIR) Post #AxlSXGbu8Cj2mAn1SS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-01T14:07:53Z
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@jqheywood 😞
(DIR) Post #AxlUoRCMDcAaRf9iMK by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-09-01T14:33:18Z
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@Nonilex This whole scheme has a money laundering feel to it, using the suffering of human beings. Is this a new criminal version of foreign aid? Food aid gets canceled but payments to certain governments continue?