Pretoria Fuming as Eswatini Becomes a Dumping Ground for Trump's Violent Migrants.
Pretoria / Mbabane – July 17, 2025
The South African government is reportedly monitoring the recent deportation of violent offenders by the United States to neighbouring Eswatini, amid growing public and security-sector concern that the country’s porous borders could be exploited by the deportees to enter South Africa unlawfully.
The five individuals, described by U.S. authorities as convicted criminals, were deported under former President Donald Trump’s reinstated “third-country deportation†policy, which allows the U.S. to transfer unwanted migrants to any willing host country in this case, the Kingdom of Eswatini.
🚨 Pretoria on Alert
While the South African government has not officiall…