NYT: Deported migrant faces indefinite detention in Eswatini
You may not be aware that the regime in this country is doing this on an ongoing basis. Consider yourself duly notified. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
Steven Norwood40This is fucking ridiculous. The cleanup process of the regime’s cruelty is going to be lengthy and maddening.
Dystopian Diva31We are living in a cruel dystopia run by sadists.
The cruelty of this regime is worthy of long prison sentences for those participating. Start with Trump and then immediately get Little Goebbels Miller
Laurel Whittaker23The United States is now the world's leader in human trafficking and torture. Thanks, MAGA!
𝔏𝔦𝔩𝔩, 𝔓𝔞𝔲𝔩’𝔰 𝔡𝔞𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔢𝔯🇳🇴♈️🇳🇴20WTF? Where has humanity gone? 🥹🤬
veronicanyce.bsky.social16None of this had to happen. The signs were literally there- 'Mass Deportation Now'; they even wrote a manifesto, Project 2025.
A Woman of a Certain Age☘️☮️💟8This is human trafficking. Abolish ICE and prosecute them all.
Brian G5True evil. I hope eventually consequences are imposed, by any and all means necessary.
Jake Wright4I'm serious when I say abolishing ICE, Nuremberg 2, and banning *literally* everyone associated with this from the janitors to the cabinet secretaries from federal employment needs to be the MINIMALIST view.
noahs-arc0602.bsky.social4America the trump Shithole that the inhumane Republican Party still supports.
Tince Collinson (MPhil)3Trump is doing this, on your watch. America you should be ashamed.
This American Patriot 💙2DON'T LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF PLS SIGN OUR Change.org PETITION👇 to DEMAND that Congress IMPEACH & CONVICT pathologically lying MAGA con artist & Hitleresque "Above the Law" #WhiteNationalist wannabe King #Trump. Then #AbolishICE www.change.org/p/please-sig... TY @felixtcat.bsky.social #BlueCrew
A shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court allowed this to happen www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
Quinta Jurecic45A district court enjoined these third-country removals in April 2025. SCOTUS stayed the injunction on June 23, 2025. Roberto Mosquera was deported to Eswatini on July 16, 2025. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...
kn1129.bsky.social18The Trump Administration is pure evil.
This is atrocious. Imagine dropping someone in a country where they have no ties, they know nobody, they don't speak their language, and in a prison where they don't know if they'll ever get out. That's one of the most cruel things you can do to anyone.
Katherine11How do the SCOTUS corrupt conservative 6 live with themselves, sleep at night, they are horrid. We should impeach them
Clio3but oh, please don't worry, our legacy media is on it, it seems cancelling Thanksgiving is the radical position and Kafkaesque and totalitraian justice is just fine and dandy.
Ilia Tewsdag3It's just pure evil to make extraordinary rendition our immigration policy.
Lawrence Hurley14Fair play to NYT for following up on this
Brian6there is not a hell hot enough for the goons working for this administration
Wannabe Apparatchik5my #1 issue in 2028 is “get all the people we have done this to, and all the money we’ve paid for it, back” if that means military force, then so be it, anyone we kill will be a warning for the future that any promise or deal of this nature is not going to be upheld by a future administration
Doug Lindner3If you have a conscience, you see this is state-sponsored human trafficking. But even if you want heartless mass deportation…do private jet flights and multimillion-dollar payments to foreign governments sound scalable?
Gabrielle🇸🇨2Every American sitting behind their screens and tutting is also responsible for this barbaric cruelty.
I'd heard NYT had finally gotten access to the men sent to Eswatini. This from Nicholas Casey is the kind of incredible and *moral* work only big institutions can do, and should do more of. Grateful for "loudmouths" like Roberto Mosquera. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
retiredwhitelady.bsky.social14I hope the next Dem administration retrieves all these people, or as many are still alive. This is one of the most horrible sins I can imagine.
Sarah J. Jackson14Nicholas Casey is a great reporter, he’s in my book! Thanks for posting.
still in Pittsburgh13"That was more than a year ago. Mosquera still sits in that same maximum-security prison with nowhere to go. No charges against him. No way to appeal his predicament. No sign that he will ever be freed."
Lynne Jackier6I wish they didn't make you create an account to read a gift article.
Nicola Pitchford4This is utterly horrifying. Your mind breaks a little just reading it — let alone living it. How can any human believe this is right?
ack1.bsky.social2This should make every American sick to their stomach. It did to me
Sarah J. Jackson89When you read the details of this I really can’t see how this is anything but pay for play human trafficking.
Hare 🍉49A man who'd served his time, turned his life around, and had been living peaceably in America for years, sent to a foreign gulag. If we're getting out of this, the US needs to ban deportation to third countries, detention without due process, and pass a sweeping amnesty.
Paul Stone 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇩🇰42The Trump administration treats human beings like cattle. This man is going blind due to untreated glaucoma as he languishes in prison for no reason. He's not charged with any crime.
Rackletang16One of my fondest hopes for a new administration is that we will retrieve all of the people we sent to third countries and immediately grant them citizenship. It is such an incalculable wrong committed in our names, in huge numbers so far. This is the least we can do, for those who survive.
Sean Hecker6Such important reporting and such a disturbing, immoral practice. "But some never get out. They remain in the third countries to which they are sent, stuck in a kind of purgatory — a new class of prisoner created by America’s widening crackdown on immigration."
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins5Going blind in a prison he may never be released from. "Because they are foreign nationals, with no legal status in the countries to which they have been sent, the deportees generally remain under indefinite detention abroad, without charges and with little or no recourse in American courts."
colleen wood2I really don't understand how the administration can square "DOGE to save money on all that deep state fraud" with "giving authoritarian governments millions of dollars to imprison people indefinitely." A gutting read; incredible, nimble reporting.
New from NYT Magazine. Roberto Mosquera came to the U.S. from Cuba at 12 in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. He served his time for an old crime. Now he sits in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini, a country he had never heard of, with no charge and no way out. 🧵
NACDL262/ He rebuilt his life. He became a plumber, a born-again Christian, a father of four. Because Cuba would not take him back, he stayed for years on annual immigration check-ins. Last summer he went to renew his work permit. He did not come home.
💙🤔 mubduh 🔵🐸6Absolutely horrifying. Cruelty & dehumanization is the point. How do those in this regime sleep at night, knowing what they've done? And it's all based on lies they parrot for der leader. Disgusting behavior.
Stu Slater3What are US taxpayers paying for his "incarceration"?
orthofirebrand.bsky.social2"The Leopards are eating my face," complains the man who convinced his daughters to vote for the Face Eating Leopards party."
Woke Majority1Didn't Cubans thought the grass was greener on the maga side in 2024?
Jon Hutson66The detail the government hopes you skip: he supported Trump. Didn't matter. He served his time, then vanished into a foreign prison with no charge and no way out. An autocratic, white supremacist machine like this has no heart and no exceptions. It just hasn't locked up you yet.
Annie22So many sickening stories. There has to be a reckoning.
NACDL4The pattern @almadavid.bsky.social, @humanrightsfirst.org & @refugeesinternational.org have documented with @aclu.org @immigrantjustice.bsky.social in one man's story. Roberto Mosquera. Held over a year in a maximum-security prison in Eswatini. No charge. No way out. Every defender should read this.
funky nat king cole medina2Dem day 1 priority has to be ratifying the Rome Statute and sending Rubio to The Hague in shackles.
