New Delhi, Aug. 12 -- MBABANE - The man described in The New York Times on Wednesday had never heard of Eswatini before the United States sent him there. He does not speak Swazi or Zulu, the country's two national languages. He has no relatives in this landlocked kingdom of 1.2 million people tucked between South Africa and Mozambique. He has no lawyer in a court system that was not built to process his situation. A Times journalist visited the prison where he is being held and interviewed him. He is one of a group of deportees the Trump administration has transferred to the country under an agreement with the Swazi government that the Department of Homeland Security has not publicly disclosed.

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