Nigeria, July 17 -- The government of Eswatini has confirmed that five foreign nationals deported by the United States have been held in isolated units at local correctional facilities and will be sent back to their countries of origin.

The deportees, originally from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen, and Laos, were removed from the U.S. under a new third-country deportation policy approved by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this month.

The five men, all convicted of serious crimes while in the U.S., arrived in Eswatini on a chartered deportation flight earlier this week. U.S. officials stated their home countries refused to accept them.

"These are individuals so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,"said Tr...