New Delhi, July 16 -- The Donald Trump administration deported five men convicted of violent crimes to Eswatini, a tiny African kingdom, on Tuesday. The deportees - from Vietnam, Jamaica, Laos, Cuba, and Yemen - included murderers and child rapists whose home countries refused to take them back.

Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin called them "uniquely barbaric" criminals now "off American soil".

The flight followed a recent Supreme Court ruling allowing deportations to countries where migrants have no ties. New immigration rules let officials deport people with just 6 hours' notice in emergencies.

Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) - a nation smaller than New Jersey with 1.2 million people - hasn't explained its agreement to a...